如何在半径为R的圆内随机生成一个点:

r = R * sqrt(random())
theta = random() * 2 * PI

(假设random()均匀地给出0到1之间的值)

如果你想把它转换成笛卡尔坐标，你可以做到

x = centerX + r * cos(theta)
y = centerY + r * sin(theta)

为什么sqrt(随机())?

让我们看看sqrt(random())之前的数学运算。为简单起见，假设我们是在单位圆上工作，即R = 1。

点与点之间的平均距离应该是相同的，不管我们看的距离中心有多远。这意味着，例如，观察一个周长为2的圆的周长，我们应该找到的点的数量是周长为1的圆周长上点的数量的两倍。

由于圆的周长(2πr)随r线性增长，因此随机点的数量应该随r线性增长。换句话说，期望的概率密度函数(PDF)线性增长。由于PDF的面积应该等于1，最大半径是1，我们有

所以我们知道随机值的理想密度应该是什么样的。 现在:当我们只有一个0到1之间的均匀随机值时，我们如何生成这样一个随机值?

我们用了一个叫做反变换采样的技巧

从PDF中创建累积分布函数(CDF) 沿着y = x镜像 将得到的函数应用于0到1之间的统一值。

听起来复杂吗?让我插入一段带有小侧轨的引语来传达直觉:

Suppose we want to generate a random point with the following distribution:                  That is 1/5 of the points uniformly between 1 and 2, and 4/5 of the points uniformly between 2 and 3. The CDF is, as the name suggests, the cumulative version of the PDF. Intuitively: While PDF(x) describes the number of random values at x, CDF(x) describes the number of random values less than x. In this case the CDF would look like:                  To see how this is useful, imagine that we shoot bullets from left to right at uniformly distributed heights. As the bullets hit the line, they drop down to the ground:                  See how the density of the bullets on the ground correspond to our desired distribution! We're almost there! The problem is that for this function, the y axis is the output and the x axis is the input. We can only "shoot bullets from the ground straight up"! We need the inverse function! This is why we mirror the whole thing; x becomes y and y becomes x:                  We call this CDF-1. To get values according to the desired distribution, we use CDF-1(random()).

所以，回到生成随机半径值，其中PDF等于2x。

步骤1:创建CDF: 由于我们处理的是实数，CDF表示为PDF的积分。

CDF（x） = ∫ 2x = x2

步骤2:沿y = x镜像CDF:

从数学上讲，这可以归结为交换x和y并求解y:

CDF: y = x2 交换:x = y2 解:y =√x CDF-1: y =√x

步骤3:将得到的函数应用于0到1之间的统一值

CDF-1(random()) =√random()

这就是我们要推导的:-)

我不知道这个问题是否还有新的答案，但我自己碰巧也遇到过同样的问题。我试着跟自己“讲道理”寻找解决办法，我找到了一个。这可能和一些人在这里提出的建议是一样的，但不管怎样，它是这样的:

in order for two elements of the circle's surface to be equal, assuming equal dr's, we must have dtheta1/dtheta2 = r2/r1. Writing expression of the probability for that element as P(r, theta) = P{ r1< r< r1 + dr, theta1< theta< theta + dtheta1} = f(r,theta)*dr*dtheta1, and setting the two probabilities (for r1 and r2) equal, we arrive to (assuming r and theta are independent) f(r1)/r1 = f(r2)/r2 = constant, which gives f(r) = c*r. And the rest, determining the constant c follows from the condition on f(r) being a PDF.

这取决于你对"均匀随机"的定义。这是一个微妙的点，你可以在这里的wiki页面上阅读更多关于它的内容:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_%28probability%29，在这里同样的问题，对“均匀随机”给出不同的解释会给出不同的答案!

根据你如何选择这些点，分布可能会有所不同，即使它们在某种意义上是均匀随机的。

It seems like the blog entry is trying to make it uniformly random in the following sense: If you take a sub-circle of the circle, with the same center, then the probability that the point falls in that region is proportional to the area of the region. That, I believe, is attempting to follow the now standard interpretation of 'uniformly random' for 2D regions with areas defined on them: probability of a point falling in any region (with area well defined) is proportional to the area of that region.

1)在-1和1之间随机选择一个X。

var X:Number = Math.random() * 2 - 1;

2)利用圆公式，在X和半径为1的情况下，计算Y的最大值和最小值:

var YMin:Number = -Math.sqrt(1 - X * X);
var YMax:Number = Math.sqrt(1 - X * X);

3)在这两个极端之间随机选择一个Y:

var Y:Number = Math.random() * (YMax - YMin) + YMin;

4)将您的位置和半径值合并到最终值中:

var finalX:Number = X * radius + pos.x;
var finalY:Number = Y * radois + pos.y;

我仍然不确定确切的“(2/R2)×r”，但显而易见的是，在给定的单位“dr”中需要分配的点的数量，即r的增加将与R2成正比，而不是r。

check this way...number of points at some angle theta and between r (0.1r to 0.2r) i.e. fraction of the r and number of points between r (0.6r to 0.7r) would be equal if you use standard generation, since the difference is only 0.1r between two intervals. but since area covered between points (0.6r to 0.7r) will be much larger than area covered between 0.1r to 0.2r, the equal number of points will be sparsely spaced in larger area, this I assume you already know, So the function to generate the random points must not be linear but quadratic, (since number of points required to be distributed in given unit 'dr' i.e. increase in r will be proportional to r2 and not r), so in this case it will be inverse of quadratic, since the delta we have (0.1r) in both intervals must be square of some function so it can act as seed value for linear generation of points (since afterwords, this seed is used linearly in sin and cos function), so we know, dr must be quadratic value and to make this seed quadratic, we need to originate this values from square root of r not r itself, I hope this makes it little more clear.

圆中的面积元是dA=rdr*dphi。这个额外的因子r破坏了你随机选择r和的想法。虽然phi分布平坦，但r不是，而是在1/r内平坦(也就是说，你更有可能击中边界而不是“靶心”)。

为了生成在圆上均匀分布的点从平面分布中选取r从1/r分布中选取。

或者使用Mehrdad提出的蒙特卡罗方法。

EDIT

要在1/r中选择一个随机的r，你可以从区间[1/ r，无穷]中选择一个随机的x，并计算r=1/x。R以1/ R为单位平坦分布。

为了计算一个随机的，从区间[0,1]中选择一个随机的x，并计算=2*pi*x。