Building a sphere

[trooper76]

Ok so here is my problem:

I'm building a Lego sphere and obviously when you only have square bricks to build with it aint exactly the easiest thing. Its also pretty large (100 blocks radius) , ok thats also pretty darn stupid but humour me for a moment.

The question is I need a decent equation that would give me the layout of bricks that would best approximate a circle for each radii (1 through 100)....I have an excel spreadsheet that uses pytharogas' (sp) theorom and some rounding but its a little screwy. Anyone ever tried anything like this? Or want to suggest a solution.

Essentially the function should spit out a format like : 9 blocks across, 1 down, 8 blocks across, 1 down, 5 blocks across, 1 down...etc etc.

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[Space Guy]

This link might help a little.

Hint: Try to keep every layer symmetrical, mirror or rotational. It will help a lot when building outwards - a complex design can be repeated instead of a new one thought of and built every quarter of a layer.

[Jaymz]

I guess edgar doesn't play much anymore or not at all? If he still does ask him.