我需要在半径为R的圆内生成一个均匀随机点。

我意识到,只要在区间[0…2π),且在区间(0…R)我最终会有更多的点指向中心,因为对于两个给定的半径,小半径内的点会比大半径内的点彼此更接近。

我在这里找到了一篇关于这个的博客文章,但我不明白他的推理。我认为这是正确的,但我真的很想知道他从哪里得到(2/R2)×r以及他如何得到最终解。


更新:在发布这个问题7年之后,关于平方根算法背后的数学问题,我仍然没有得到一个令人满意的答案。所以我花了一天时间自己写了一个答案。链接到我的答案。


当前回答

这里有一个快速而简单的解决方案。

在(0,1)范围内选择两个随机数,即a和b。如果b < a,则交换它们。你的观点是(b * R * cos(2 *π* a / b), b * R * sin(2 *π* a / b))。

您可以这样考虑这个解决方案。如果你把圆切开,然后把它拉直,你会得到一个直角三角形。把这个三角形缩小,你会得到一个从(0,0)到(1,0)到(1,1)再回到(0,0)的三角形,所有这些变换都会均匀地改变密度。你所做的就是在三角形中随机取一个点然后反过来得到圆中的一个点。

其他回答

这里有一个快速而简单的解决方案。

在(0,1)范围内选择两个随机数,即a和b。如果b < a,则交换它们。你的观点是(b * R * cos(2 *π* a / b), b * R * sin(2 *π* a / b))。

您可以这样考虑这个解决方案。如果你把圆切开,然后把它拉直,你会得到一个直角三角形。把这个三角形缩小,你会得到一个从(0,0)到(1,0)到(1,1)再回到(0,0)的三角形,所有这些变换都会均匀地改变密度。你所做的就是在三角形中随机取一个点然后反过来得到圆中的一个点。

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。

朴素解不起作用的原因是它给了靠近圆中心的点更高的概率密度。换句话说,半径为r/2的圆被选中点的概率为r/2,但它的面积(点的数量)为*r^2/4。

因此,我们希望半径概率密度具有以下性质:

选择半径小于或等于给定r的概率必须与半径为r的圆的面积成正比(因为我们希望在点上有一个均匀的分布,面积越大意味着点越多)。

换句话说,我们希望在[0,r]之间选择半径的概率等于它在圆的总面积中所占的份额。圆的总面积是*R^2,半径为R的圆的面积是*R^2。因此,我们希望在[0,r]之间选择半径的概率为(pi*r^2)/(pi* r^2) = r^2/ r^2。

现在来算算:

The probability of choosing a radius between [0,r] is the integral of p(r) dr from 0 to r (that's just because we add all the probabilities of the smaller radii). Thus we want integral(p(r)dr) = r^2/R^2. We can clearly see that R^2 is a constant, so all we need to do is figure out which p(r), when integrated would give us something like r^2. The answer is clearly r * constant. integral(r * constant dr) = r^2/2 * constant. This has to be equal to r^2/R^2, therefore constant = 2/R^2. Thus you have the probability distribution p(r) = r * 2/R^2

Note: Another more intuitive way to think about the problem is to imagine that you are trying to give each circle of radius r a probability density equal to the proportion of the number of points it has on its circumference. Thus a circle which has radius r will have 2 * pi * r "points" on its circumference. The total number of points is pi * R^2. Thus you should give the circle r a probability equal to (2 * pi * r) / (pi * R^2) = 2 * r/R^2. This is much easier to understand and more intuitive, but it's not quite as mathematically sound.

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.

半径和“靠近”该半径的点的数量之间存在线性关系,因此他需要使用半径分布,这也使得半径r附近的数据点的数量与r成正比。