[Insight-developers] itkFastRandomUnitNormalVariateGenerator

[Miller, James V (CRD)]

I noticed a new class called itkFastRandomUnitNormalVariateGenerator was added to Insight last night.
This names a little redundant and probably confusing.  My first assumption was that it generated
random unit length normal vectors (3-vectors).
Could this class be called itkNormalVariateGenerator?
It appears as though the term "unit" here is meant to refer to a standardized distribution (mean zero
and unit variance).  This class could easily support any mean/variance, since that simply entails a
scale and a shift to the generated value.

Jim Miller
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