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Re:Random Points on a Sphere by carlob on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @07:19AM (#9451440)
I'm not sure I agree, I think the really high-level option is to use a library and not roll your own.

For example:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Spherical-...

Re:Random Points on a Sphere by davmre on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @03:51PM (#9454712)
Fair enough. Though it looks like gsl_ran_dir_nd is implemented using normalized Gaussians, so in this case we're back where we started. :-)