Re: Converting spherical to elliptical distribution
Bradley Lucier 08 Aug 2020 01:44 UTC
On 8/5/20 2:14 AM, Arvydas Silanskas wrote:
> For what it's worth, at least for ball generation, I did make a post on
> math exchange
> https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3764160/is-voelkers-dropped-coordinates-method-for-generating-points-in-ball-applicable and
> got a reply that having different scalings on axis doesn't stop it being
> uniform distribution
Yeah, that appears to be correct, that's very interesting, good, thanks.
Linas, would you like to look at my test program and see whether I've
understood correctly how to test (make-sphere-generator '#(10 2)); if so
I think we should restrict the argument to make-sphere-generator to be a
positive integer.
Brad
