Hi Brian, unfortunately the difficulty actually goes beyond just distributing things only on the sphere itself - the problem is about distributing things on the sphere that are also simultaneously equally distributed from the elements coming from the cylinder part as well...

Maybe that will yield something useful for YHWH_777 anyway though, but it's complex enough that I'm not really going to be able to dig into it more myself.

The "electrostatic repulsion" method described there is basically the same thing as the iterative solver approach which might be an approach if you were writing some custom software to solve this particular problem.

- Michael