Got a sphere to rotate around in 3D sphere. The theorem of the bucky ball turned out to be too complex to implement.  The miniml approach came from the wikipedia sphere definition.  

I implemented this equation by creating the following for loop for the initialisation of the points.  angleIncrement is set by setting the number of points on the sphere. You will also notice that I changes the x,y,z property equations to match the above equation.

	
	for(var i=-Math.PI;i<=Math.PI;i+=angleIncriment ){
		for(var j=0;j<=Math.PI;j+=angleIncriment){
			// create clip
			var clip = make3DModel(i,j);
			// set render
			clip.onEnterFrame = renderRotate;
		}
	}

	// 3D xyz positions
	clip.x = centerX + Math.cos(i) * Math.cos(j)*focalLength;
	clip.y = centerY + Math.cos(i) * Math.sin(j)*focalLength;
	clip._z = clip.z = centerY + Math.sin(i)*focalLength;