When points are scattered within several spatially separated clusters (circles), the frequency distribution of pairwise distances between all points is multi-modal: one peak at small distances (pairs within the same circle) and additional distinct peaks at larger distances corresponding to the separations between different circle clusters.
With 50 points randomly scattered inside each of three circles arranged at the vertices of an equilateral triangle, pairwise distances fall into two broad categories:...
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