[nh23423fefe]

probably torus. could you actually discretize the sphere properly? isnt this like tessellating a soccer ball?

[wat10000]

You can get the topology of a sphere with holes at the poles by wrapping left/right but not up/down, like the Civilization games. Or you can do it with no holes by having left/right wrap, and top/bottom do a different wrap where you come back from the same direction but halfway around horizontally. (Imagine the path crossing over the poles projected onto a Mercator map.)

[pezezin]

> You can get the topology of a sphere with holes at the poles by wrapping left/right but not up/down, like the Civilization games.

That is just a cylinder.