So a looooooong time ago (back in the list only days) I created a definition based on an example from RhinoScript 101 (Page 63) for packing circles on a sphere.
Well, I can’t find the file and if I could it’s probably too old to be readable. So I created the definition again this time using data trees (which is more in the spirit of the original script anyway).
You can generate circles based on their radius. This works pretty quickly. The bottom image has 31,295 circles. No sweat.
You can also (because why not?) make a golf ball type object. This works very slowly and it might crash your computer. The golf ball image has 370 dimples. Take a coffee break.
DEFINITION
gBall.ghx (Right-click on link and “Save link as…”)
distribute_circles_on_sphere_070108.wrm (Found it! Blast from the past, only works with GH 0.5 or earlier.)