Circle packing of curved surfaces=basketball example

[mikele]

Suggestions on how to make a similar to basketball pattern on curved surfaces?
custom shape, defined gap, on curved surface, Brandon look, tangent to surface etc?
Seems grasshopper is the way to go, but I cant figure out onsurface+custom gaps/equal circals
Texture on surf_v1.3dm (232.9 KB)

[DanielPiker]

Here a couple of relevant previous discussions

Is there an easy way to create uniform point distributions on a sphere, such as the endpoints of an icosohedron, but more points?

Here’s an example of using electrostatic type repulsion to distribute a large number of points (shown here with 10,000). This approach can be useful if you require a specific number of points, since with the subdivision method you are limited to the jumps in vertex count between levels of subdivision. repulsion_distribute_sphere.gh (14.3 KB)

Samekomon - japanese rotational dot pattern - point distribution

[image] samekomon2.gh (9.8 KB) Interesting pattern. Here’s my take on this.

[John_Brock]

Moved to Grasshopper category

[anon39580149]

It’s better if you use texture with bump, and you can try with TriRemesh

basketball.gh (12.8 KB)