# Spot pattern on ball surface

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**Created:** [December 12, 2024, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/spot-pattern-on-ball-surface/35557 "2024-12-12T19:46:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/spot-pattern-on-ball-surface/35557/2 "2024-12-13T00:19:08Z")

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Very complex ask. If you break the sphere into slices vertically like and orange using split body tool. But also split the sphere into sections horizontally e.g. like parallels at the lower 135th parallel, equator and upper 45th parallel. Then carefully unfold and flatten the pieces would one way to project to the surface for a regular pattern. Tedious to be sure

If you do not need uniform spots then drawing the spots on a plane and carefully rotating the plane or the sphere and project them onto the sphere maybe.

A search will net you some oldie but goodies

> [@Earth globe puzzle](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/earth-globe-puzzle/10211/9):
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> For some reason, the image projection does not come out correctly. That’s why I used replace face tool. [[11 December 2020] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQvqlfCinps)

> [@Making holes in a sphere](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/making-holes-in-a-sphere/5420/5):
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> I don’t know if this is what the OP was talking about, but I mean depressions in the surface of the sphere kind of like a golf ball. The extrusions wouldn’t push the whole way through. As you can see in these pics, the depression varies in depth due to the flat bottom.

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