Re: Random points in triangle
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- Subject: [mg111665] Re: Random points in triangle
- From: David Latin <d.latin at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 05:15:18 -0400 (EDT)
For a much simpler and probably naive approach, what about filtering for
those random coordinates lying inside a triangle bounded by:
y>x, y<x, y<1-x
I know this is not very sophisticated, but randomly generated points inside
a rectangle should be random inside a triangle also.
pts = RandomReal[{0, 1}, {10^5, 2}] ;
ptsT = Select[ pts, ( #[[2]] >= 0 && #[[2]] < #[[1]] && #[[2]] < 1 - #[[1]]
) & ] ;
ListPlot[ ptsT, PlotStyle -> PointSize[.001] ]
David
On 6 August 2010 17:55, S. B. Gray <stevebg at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> I was looking for a simple way to place random points inside a triangle
> with uniform distribution. Here's a good way:
>
> newtri := Module[{x},
> ptri = RandomReal[{-5, +5}, {3, 2}];
> tredg = Subsets[ptri, {2}];
> ]
> newpts[nump_] := Module[{wts},
> inpoints = {};
> Do [ wts = RandomReal[GammaDistribution[1, 2], 3];
> wts = wts/Total[wts];
> newin = Total[ptri*wts];
> inpoints = Append[inpoints, newin], {nump}];
> ]
> shotri := Module[{x},
> Graphics[{Blue, Line[tredg], Red, Point[inpoints]}, ImageSize -> 500]
> ]
>
> The same idea works for points in a tetrahedron; they will be uniformly
> distributed if you use args such as GammaDistribution[.6,.1].
>
> Steve Gray
>
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