On 2009-04-20 23:04, per wrote:
to be more formal by very different, i would be happy if they were
maximally distant in ordinary euclidean space... so if you just plot
the 3-tuples on x, y, z i want them to all be very different from each
other. i realize this is obviously biased and that the tuples are not
uniformly distributed -- that's exactly what i want...
any ideas on how to go about this?
Perhaps it would help if you told us what application you are going to use them
for? You can straightforwardly make a regular tetrahedral grid of points that
fit in your box at whatever density you like. Which is more important: maximal
(average) distance between neighbors or avoiding regularity? If you need to
strike a balance between them, then you may want to look into low-discrepancy
sequences:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
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