10 questions linked to/from How to generate random points on a sphere?
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### Is there a way to generate individual uniformly distributed points on a sphere from a fixed amount of random real numbers per point? [duplicate]

The obvious solution of Lattitude & Longitude doesn't work because it generates points more densely near the poles, and the other thing I came up with (Pick a random point in the unit cube, if it'...
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### Picking random points in the volume of sphere with uniform probability

I have a sphere of radius $R_{s}$, and I would like to pick random points in its volume with uniform probability. How can I do so while preventing any sort of clustering around poles or the center of ...
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### How to find a random axis or unit vector in 3D?

I would like to generate a random axis or unit vector in 3D. In 2D it would be easy, I could just pick an angle between 0 and 2*Pi and use the unit vector pointing in that direction. But in 3D I don'...
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### How can I pick a random point on the surface of a sphere with equal distribution?

I've got a random number generator that yields values between 0 and 1, and I'd like to use it to select a random point on the surface of a sphere where all points on the sphere are equally likely. ...