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3 Aug 2024 06:19:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sphere/polyherdon question  
From: Paul Bourke
Date: 2 May 2004 00:24:12
Message: <pdb_NOSPAM-ABFA9D.14241102052004@news.povray.org>
> I need to approximate a sphere with 60,000 points.  How can I generate such
> a polyhedron with equivalent points on the sphere?  Perhaps a C algorithm is
> posted some place on this web site but I can't find it.

if you can live with other numbers around 60,000 (whos going to count
them anyway?!) then see this
   http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/modelling/sphere/

-- 
Paul Bourke
pdb_NOSPAMswin.edu.au


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