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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: sphere generation
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Date: 16 Feb 90 19:37:41 GMT
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In article <23900004@suna1@ mcooper@suna1.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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@I'm looking for a fairly simple algorithm to generate an approximate
@sphere of radius r out of n polygons...

Would it be easier to pose this as fitting n vertices constrained to be
the maximum distance apart?  Then the vertices would be triangulated.