I tried to do a mace with evenly spaced spikes. I found I could either do a 
geodesic dome as mentioned above OR itterate repeatedly simulating the 
"dimples" as electrons stuck to the surface of a sphere repulsing each 
other - after a couple of hundred itterations, the opints are pretty evenly 
spaced.

For the record, I cheated - I found a list of polar co-ordinates on the net 
and just dumped them into an array - lots of dimples, yet (relatively) low 
parse time.

Hope this helped

~Simon


"Allen" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> Hey World,
>
> Well, you have gotten me started on CGSphere stuff.  I'm trying to model a
> small scene, but I have gotten stuck early on.  I am attempting to model a
> golfball, but I can't find any resources on one.  I just can't seem to
> figure out how to get the dimples on the ball.  I can get one row, but 
> then
> I still have tons others to hand place.
>
> Can anyone help me develop a macro for this?  I can't figure out the 
> formula
> that would allow this to be simplified.  I'll post anything I do figure
> out... this isn't something that is easy to find information on.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Allen
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