Measurement of areas on a sphere using Fibonacci and latitude-longitude lattices — mentioned by reeece

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:00:58 GMT

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. [1] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/0912.4540

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Measurement of areas on a sphere using Fibonacci and latitude-longitude lattices — mentioned by reeece