In article <3e13cfc6@news.povray.org>,
 "Jessie K. Blair" <lor### [at] aolcom> wrote:

> I have a sphere shaped object that I wish to place many smaller spheres
> around.  I want the smaller spheres to be plotted on the points of
> intersection of the wireframe that a sphere would consist of, allowing the
> smaller spheres to be placed in a spherical shape around the first sphere
> object.

You need to be a bit more specific...there are many ways to tessellate a 
sphere. You place them with spherical coordinates, at the crossings of 
latitude/longitude lines. You could place them at the vertices of a 
polyhedron generated by recursively splitting the triangles of a regular 
tetrahedron or octahedron. You could place them in grids on the faces of 
a sphere that is then projected to the surface of the sphere. And 
probably some others I haven't thought of yet.

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