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From: jasper@wti.com (Jon Barber)
Subject: Best fit sphere to cloud of points
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Given a cloud of points, I want to know if 
those points are on a (fuzzy) sphere, and
if so, where the center of the sphere is.

I say fuzzy because some tolerance off the
sphere is acceptable.

Any ideas/pointers?
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