Indexing the Sphere with the Hierarchical Triangular Mesh

1 code implementation • 26 Jan 2007 • Alexander S. Szalay, Jim Gray, George Fekete, Peter Z. Kunszt, Peter Kukol, Ani Thakar

We describe a method to subdivide the surface of a sphere into spherical triangles of similar, but not identical, shapes and sizes.

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