alt Hacker NewsI noticed that the dots on the surface of the sphere are evenly spaced out close to the equator, but because there is a consistent number of dots in each ring, they are very close together when you reach the poles.
One way to get dots evenly spread out over the surface of a sphere is to use a phyllotaxis spiral pattern.
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PhyllotaxisSpiralPatternO...
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cluckindan • last Tuesday at 11:14 PM
Those examples don’t seem to be evenly spaced at the poles.
I like the surface dots like it is. It gives me two points of reference at the poles, and adds intuition for how long it takes to go around the sphere.