> > Well, there's a temporary fix, rendering two face-to-face 180 degrees

>
> Well, sorry, no:  the existing camera does 180 deg only left-to-right,
> and only 90deg vertically.  And you cannot just stitch four of them
> together for a panoramic viewer, due to the distortions at the picture
> borders.

Try using a fisheye camera set to 360 degrees, and use Helmut Dersch's
panorama tools...  http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/   ...to do the
conversion to equirectangular projection.
Worked well for me.  See some examples below...

Alien Island...
http://www.xlcus.co.uk/povray/island/pan.html

Julia...
http://www.xlcus.co.uk/povray/julia/pan.html


Cheers,

--
Jonathan Hunt
http://www.xlcus.co.uk/povray/

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