Dividing surfaces with curves?

 From:  Dreamcube017
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Hello. Just checking out the ptrogram and it's really awesome.

The only problem is that I've project some curves onto a sphere and would like to have the surfaces seporated. For example, in the image, there's a polygon projected to a sphere. I'd like the face of the polygon to be separate so that I can do things such as insets and stuff, but I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've tried a few of the booleans which sort of work, but don't give the exact results I am looking for.

Here's the image.

http://content.screencast.com/users/Dreamcube017/folders/Jing/media/5756b4bb-7824-42b4-8161-e067ca94494e/MoI%20cutting%20shapes.png

Thanks.