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Re:Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this ...
on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:00PM (#44963689)
The animations are so fluid!
I very recently was looking to generate some complex shapes, and stumbled onto the complex problem of "disperse N points on sphere" and all its nuances.
There was a really cool / simple algorithm that was mentioned called the fibonacci-sphere that also generates a spiral around a sphere, but for the point dispersal. Here's a paper [1] on it that talks more about it.