Does somebody know in Blender or a different MESH/CAD app to find on a sphere equidistant points? In Blender I started with an Icosphere but as it turns out the triangle being used does not have each side being equal.
Attached are two screenshots. On a sphere I need to position a certain amount of sensors (This is MRI related) for a brain scan device. And those sensors have to be equidistant to each other across a sphere.
Anybody has a tip? A software or script?
did u try the sphere with quad but even that might not be perfect equal quads !
guess will have to do it with a script then !
there must be some sort of 3D shape to get equidistant points on a sphere!
happy bl
see this one
but also you could create another sphere with the right number of points !
edit see this one
happy bl
Hello soccer ball:
so the Icosphere can be used but only certain points are truly equidistant to each other:
so one way would be to subdivide this to get a finer point matrix …
Thanks for those links but I am not a coder … SADLY grrrrrr
if you read the link info
it would appear that the general case is still a mystery !
but there might some close approximation to it !
there are also these
and this
If you want 4, 6, 8,12 or 20 vertices then you can have exactly equidistant vertices asthe Platonic solid which all fit inside a sphere. The actual coordinates of these should be easy to get. For other numbers ofvertices you can use other polyhedra and scale the verties so theylie on a sphere.
we already have an addon for platonic solid and for polyhedral it think
happy bl
Oh do we? I have to google that!
You are right 20,points is max - shoot …
platonic ob are already included just activate addon extra mesh
select the math function then select solid
happy bl
