> 
> I was used 3ds years ago. The last version I used a lot was 3ds release 4. I
> remember from this application there were two possible triangulations of sphere.
> First one is easy and base on spliting angles "verticaly" and "horizontaly" just
> like coordinates of earth are provided. I looking for algorithm of second way.
> IIRC the number of faces was simple controled by int and was equal to power of
> this int (^2 or ^3). I tried spliting base triangulation (4 faces) along edges
> but this not returns equal triangles. I tried find some equations from
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GeodesicDome.html but there is no formula depending
> from single int like with 3ds. I'm not interested with algorithms with n-points
> distributed on sphere. I have it. Could anybody help me?

There are of course an infinite number of possible tesselations of a
sphere, the best results can be expected from a method producing nearly
equilateral triangles.  

I'm not sure what exactly you want, but see
http://www.cris.com/~rjbono/html/dome_res.html for some more resources.

Christoph

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