I think this is in the art of Maya book from alias press... Use a displacement map to modify the geometry of a sphere. As polyhedron it's a little different as the surface has both
pentagons and hexagons.
Here is a tut from a different program that you should be able to translate to Maya:
https://www.lightrays.de/html/tutoria...ll_tut_eng.htm
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