Re: covering a sphere with patches

Try 
http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/udpoint/udpoints.html
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/geometry/spherepoints/
http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?forumID=13&threadID=1248382&messageID=3985254
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/21747

Many of these use random points with a uniform distribution on the
surface of the sphere, but at least one of them was deterministic.
Most of the surface integral calculations I've seen have used sample
points, rather than patches.

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