Poisson Disk Sampling(stripeacross.com) |
Poisson Disk Sampling(stripeacross.com) |
thanks, these are great!
I was confused for a while thinking p and q were swapped here, relative to the visualization below. [0] However I now think what I missed is that that the visualization is showing two points that are already firmly-established, and the question is where a potential third (unseen, unnamed) point could be placed.
So metaphorically speaking, it's about picking a new direction of travel that isn't guaranteed to be into your own recent footsteps.
[0] You might say I have problems minding my p's and q's.
So you probably could figure out a way to use this method to make a low-discrepancy sequence but it's probably not going to be particularly suitable compared to alternatives.
All that said, there's definitely been research into samplers that combine low-discrepancy with blue noise properties (often including retaining those properties even in lower-dimensional projections produced by dropping axis).