Off topic, can someone shed any light on the "The <adjective> <quality> of <noun>" style headlines we see everywhere now? Every second headline in The Atlantic is structured this way and I see it all the time in similarly aligned publications.
The page makes a good case that the method is more regular than other approaches, but then doesn't compare its performance to naive regular approaches like lattices or distributions derived from standard aperiodic tilings.
> need to distribute points on the surface of a 3-sphere as evenly as possible
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> need to distribute points on the surface of a 3-sphere as evenly as possible
The examples there are of a 2-sphere.