This post will let me store some useful code and possibly share it with others. I had originally found this wonderful explanation on stack overflow on how to generate triangles in a super simple manner for a nice sphere mesh.

The idea is to take an octohedron, or icosahedron, and subdivide the triangles on the surface of the mesh, such that each triangle creates 4 new triangles (each triangle creates a Triforce symbol).

One thing the stack overflow page didn’t describe is intermittent normalization between each subdivision. If you imagine subdividing an octohedron over and over without any normalization, the final resulting sphere will have triangles that vary in size quite a bit. However, if after each subdivision every single vertex is normalized then the vertices will snap to the unit sphere more often. This results in a final mesh that has triangles of closer to uniform geodesic area.

The final mesh isn’t purely geodesic and there will be variation in the size of the triangles, but it will be hardly noticeable. Sphere meshes will look super nice and also behave well when simulating soft bodies with Matyka’s pressure volume.

Here’s an example program you can use to perform some subdivisions upon an octohedron (click here to view the program’s output):