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Creating a short, d-dense list of points on the sphere S^4 in Python
I am a mathematician and this is my first time using Stack Overflow, sorry if the question is not adequate or there is some better place to ask this. I would like to know if there is a standard way ...
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Robust polygon normal calculation
is there a good robust algorithm to calculate normal vector of a convex polygon (in 3D, of course)? For triangles, it is easy: one takes two of the triangle's edges and calculates the cross product:
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sample random point in triangle [closed]
Suppose you have an arbitrary triangle with vertices A, B, and C. This paper (section 4.2) says that you can generate a random point, P, uniformly from within triangle ABC by the following convex ...
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