Hi, I am working on a project where I need to divide a unit circle into roughly equal areas.
Ideally I’d have a function location, area = divideCircleArea(nAreas);
where nAreas is the number of areas (typically about 50). location would be the center of each area [x,y] and area the relative area the point represents.
My solution (in Matlab) so far was to use a sunflower distribution to get the locations and then use the voronoin function to create the areas and get the edges, which I would pass on to polyarea to get the area, which is then normalized.
How would you solve the issue in Julia? Is there another, better approach?
This article by Masset et al., shows a simple algorithm to divide the circle that you might consider.
The method has a constraint: nAreas = N1*n^2, where N1 is the number of divisions of the inner ring and n is the total number of rings. So, for nAreas = 50, you may consider N1=2 and n=5.
That’s a really interesting publication and also seems to be quite easy to implement! Thank you!
It is a shame that the LaTeX document seems to be one compilation away from including all citations, and that it isn’t easy to cite itself (year missing, no doi). I tried contacting the person, but the mail is not active anymore and I haven’t found another “mature” version of it.
