// Copyright 2018 Developers of the Rand project. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license // , at your // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed // except according to those terms. use Rng; use distributions::{Distribution, Uniform}; /// Samples uniformly from the surface of the unit sphere in three dimensions. /// /// Implemented via a method by Marsaglia[^1]. /// /// /// # Example /// /// ``` /// use rand::distributions::{UnitSphereSurface, Distribution}; /// /// let sphere = UnitSphereSurface::new(); /// let v = sphere.sample(&mut rand::thread_rng()); /// println!("{:?} is from the unit sphere surface.", v) /// ``` /// /// [^1]: Marsaglia, George (1972). [*Choosing a Point from the Surface of a /// Sphere.*](https://doi.org/10.1214/aoms/1177692644) /// Ann. Math. Statist. 43, no. 2, 645--646. #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug)] pub struct UnitSphereSurface; impl UnitSphereSurface { /// Construct a new `UnitSphereSurface` distribution. #[inline] pub fn new() -> UnitSphereSurface { UnitSphereSurface } } impl Distribution<[f64; 3]> for UnitSphereSurface { #[inline] fn sample(&self, rng: &mut R) -> [f64; 3] { let uniform = Uniform::new(-1., 1.); loop { let (x1, x2) = (uniform.sample(rng), uniform.sample(rng)); let sum = x1*x1 + x2*x2; if sum >= 1. { continue; } let factor = 2. * (1.0_f64 - sum).sqrt(); return [x1 * factor, x2 * factor, 1. - 2.*sum]; } } } #[cfg(test)] mod tests { use distributions::Distribution; use super::UnitSphereSurface; /// Assert that two numbers are almost equal to each other. /// /// On panic, this macro will print the values of the expressions with their /// debug representations. macro_rules! assert_almost_eq { ($a:expr, $b:expr, $prec:expr) => ( let diff = ($a - $b).abs(); if diff > $prec { panic!(format!( "assertion failed: `abs(left - right) = {:.1e} < {:e}`, \ (left: `{}`, right: `{}`)", diff, $prec, $a, $b)); } ); } #[test] fn norm() { let mut rng = ::test::rng(1); let dist = UnitSphereSurface::new(); for _ in 0..1000 { let x = dist.sample(&mut rng); assert_almost_eq!(x[0]*x[0] + x[1]*x[1] + x[2]*x[2], 1., 1e-15); } } #[test] fn value_stability() { let mut rng = ::test::rng(2); let dist = UnitSphereSurface::new(); assert_eq!(dist.sample(&mut rng), [-0.24950027180862533, -0.7552572587896719, 0.6060825747478084]); assert_eq!(dist.sample(&mut rng), [0.47604534507233487, -0.797200864987207, -0.3712837328763685]); assert_eq!(dist.sample(&mut rng), [0.9795722330927367, 0.18692349236651176, 0.07414747571708524]); } }