From: George Marsaglia <geo@stat.fsu.edu>
Subject: Re: Uniformly Distributed Points on Sphere
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:44:15 -0500
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic

Conrad Schiff wrote:

> Hello,
>
>     I know that this is probably an already asked and answered question
> but I don't know where to find information on how to distribute points
> uniformly on a sphere.  Any references and pointers will be much
> appreciated.

You can download

George Marsaglia, Choosing a Point from the Surface of a Sphere
Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Vol. 43, No. 2. (Apr., 1972), pp.
645-646.

from

http://www.jstor.org/