Mutant football - force directed spacing on sphere

Evenly spacing points on a sphere is an interesting problem. There is the Fibonacci spiral approach, but I’ve always wondered what a force directed spacing would look like. Then I was watching @jonpaulsballs custom football R&D lab on YouTube and was inspired to finally implement it with spherical voronoi to generate mutant footballs. If you find a cool design, share the number!

I’d love any suggestions, especially how to implement save/load and how to create a polygon net. When this page get’s more mature, I’m going to email it to Jon. Thank you @Fil for implementing the better rotation for me! <3

Eventually, I’m going to use this to make my own ball with my local maker space laser cutter.

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