Figure 2

Samples from three Kent distributions on the sphere. The red points were sampled from a distribution with high concentration and high correlation (κ = 1000, β = 499), the green points were sampled from a distribution with low concentration and no correlation (κ = 10, β = 0), and the blue points were sampled from a distribution with medium concentration and medium correlation (κ = 200, β = 50). The distributions underlying the red and green points have the same mean direction and axes and illustrate the effect of κ and β. For each distribution, 5000 points are sampled.