Nice! I was looking for this the other day, would have been nice to find a writeup on this site about it (since its writeups are always so clear). I ended up do

Nice! I was looking for this the other day, would have been nice to find a writeup on this site about it (since its writeups are always so clear). I ended up doing hexagons on a sphere (with 12 pentagons). There's a writeup on this site about that too. It goes to great length going around the pentagons, but for my purpose they're not an issue.