If you don't have cgal installed, it just takes n random points uniformly over the upper half of the 4 sphere.If you have CGAL, it smooths them out some.
I'm not sure what you mean by poles (it is uniform over the upper 4-sphere).
On Oct 6, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Keren Lasker wrote:
> hi Daniel -
>
> Frido and I are using get_uniform_cover_rotations_3d for exhaustive
> rotational sampling.
> The code for this function seems to sample random vectors on a 4D
> sphere.
> How sensitive is it to poles over sampling?
>
> thanks,
> Keren.
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