Random dots to make a circle

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Lucas Sigfridsson
Lucas Sigfridsson on 12 Apr 2021
Edited: Alan Stevens on 12 Apr 2021
This code works excellent to make a circle with randomized dots. My problem now is that I want a inner circle were these randomized dots can't be placed. So it will be like this
but have I drawn a circle.

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Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens on 12 Apr 2021
Try something like
n = 1000;
t = 2*pi*rand(n,1);
Ri = 1;
Ro = 2;
r = Ri + (Ro - Ri)*rand(n,1);
x0 = 0; y0 = 0;
x = x0 + r.*cos(t);
y = y0 + r.*sin(t);
plot(x,y,'.b')
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Lucas Sigfridsson
Lucas Sigfridsson on 12 Apr 2021
Thanks that works excellent. Do you have any ideas how to not have the inner circle in the middle of the bigger one?
Alan Stevens
Alan Stevens on 12 Apr 2021
Edited: Alan Stevens on 12 Apr 2021
How about
n = 2000;
t = 2*pi*rand(n,1);
Ri = 1;
Ro = 3;
r = Ro*rand(n,1);
x0 = 0; y0 = 0;
x = x0 + r.*cos(t);
y = y0 + r.*sin(t);
xoffset = 1;
yoffset = -0.5;
theta = 0:pi/180:2*pi;
xi = xoffset + Ri*cos(theta);
yi = yoffset + Ri*sin(theta);
plot(x,y,'.b')
hold on
fill(xi,yi,'w')
Note that, in order to get a uniform distribution of dots in a circle you need to choose R^2, not R, randomly (though this might not be important for your application, and I've not bothered to do that in the listing here).

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