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Wed 2003-12-24 06:52 |
This all reminds me about some inorganic chemistry lectures I once went to. IIRC small clusters of metal atoms like to form constrained-to-sphere shapes, with a strong preference for lots of triangles.
I wonder about the other good way of arranging 8 points: an octahedron with two opposing faces being 'capped' by an extra vertex. Does your algorithm always get the global minimum? |
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