Goldberg polyhedra subdiv on revolved surface

A Goldberg polyhedron has icosahedral symmetry, so it cannot be a general revolved surface. For a sphere I believe Rhino Polyhedra will generate various Goldberg polyhedra.

If you are asking about more general shapes with hexagonal/pentagonal faces though -

If the target surface is close enough to a sphere, you could generate the subdivided mesh on a sphere then wrap it onto the target.

For more general shapes though, you will need not just pentagons but also some heptagons.

Here’s a way you can remesh to pentagons/hexagons/heptagons while keeping rotational symmetry:


revolve_symmetry.gh (13.8 KB)

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