hypersphere, an Octave code which carries out various operations for an M-dimensional hypersphere, including converting between Cartesian and spherical coordinates, stereographic projection, sampling the surface of the sphere, and computing the surface area and volume.
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hypersphere is available in a C version and a C++ version and a Fortran90 version and a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.
geometry, an Octave code which performs geometric calculations in 2, 3 and M dimensional space.
hypersphere_angle, an Octave code which considers the problem of describing the typical value of the angle between a pair of points randomly selected on the unit hypersphere in M dimensions. Since by symmetry, this will be zero, we instead look at the average of the absolute value of the dot product, and the corresponding angle. This starts out at 1 for dimension 1, and rapidly decreases as the spatial dimension increases.
hypersphere_distance, an Octave code which computes the expected value of the distance between a pair of points randomly selected on the unit hypersphere in M dimensions.
hypersphere_integrals, an Octave code which returns the exact value of the integral of any monomial over the surface of the unit hypersphere in M dimensions.
hypersphere_monte_carlo, an Octave code which applies a Monte Carlo method to estimate the integral of a function on the surface of the unit sphere in M dimensions;
hypersphere_surface, an Octave code which illustrates a procedure for estimating the location of a hypersurface defined by a characteristic function or a signed function.
quadrilateral, an Octave code which carries out geometric calculations on quadrilaterals, including angles, area, distances, nearest point, point containment, perimeter, and random generation.
random_data, an Octave code which generates sample points for various probability distributions, spatial dimensions, and geometries, including the M-dimensional cube, ellipsoid, simplex and sphere.
sphere_stereograph, an Octave code which computes the stereographic mapping between points on the unit sphere and points on the plane Z = 1; a generalized mapping is also available
sphere_stereograph_display, an Octave code which computes and displays the results of several stereographic projections between a sphere and a plane.