calculating a sphere in opengl

Question

I want to calculate all the vertices needed and connect them with lines, so I eventually come up with a sphere. How many ways are there to do it? And also the lines between

Answer 1

There's more than one way to do this: a) icosphere generation and b)UV sphere generation. There may be more methods to do this. Some googling got me this excellent post on icosphere generation. I couldn't find UV sphere generation method though.