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When you have competed this pleasant and relaxing exercise, your drawing should look like the one pictured above. Marquee select all of the triangles (if there is nothing else on the page, you can use Ctrl a or Edit > Select All. Right click the cross hatched box to the left of the screen palette to set the outline Width to none.
Select and Delete the guidelines you pasted onto the Guides layer. Add 4 new guidelines, one for each side as shown. In this next step we will apply a series of Circular Envelopes with the Mold Tool to change the square group of triangles into a spherical shape. In case you're the curious type and are wondering why the need to make all those modifications to the triangles, all will be revealed in a moment.
Marquee select all of the triangles or use Ctrl a. Switch to the Mold Tool (Shift F6). Click the circle icon (Circular Envelope) on the Infobar. This gives the triangles a quasi spherical look. Zoom in close to the circular shape and drag 4 new guidelines through the 4 tiny boxes (the control handles) on the envelope. NOTE: The triangles now appear to be pointing in a variety of outward directions. This is what all the modification of the triangles was for. While the objects sort of look like a sphere, we need add another Circular Envelope to make the sphere more convincing. But don't do it just yet. With the enveloped shapes selected, Arrange > Convert to Editable Shapes. This removes the ability to edit the Envelope with the Mold Tool options.
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