Got It!

Sorry folks.  I've always been kinda scared of UV-mapping so haven't
seen what it's all about...

sphere{
  0,1
     pigment{
          uv_mapping
          checker color rgb 0 color rgb 1 scale 0.1
     }
}

Thanks anyway - I'm sure you woulda helped... ;)
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Mark Hanford

Putting POV code on the web? Make it look pretty with POV2HTML...
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"Mark Hanford" <mar### [at] theinternetcom> wrote in message
news:3db48e3d$1@news.povray.org...
> I'm sure I've missed something obvious (late-night shortsightedness
> maybe) but I'm having trouble getting a checker pattern to map
itself
> onto a sphere in such a way as that it looks a bit like the lat/long
> lines on a globe.
>
> Can someone please give me a clue (or a bash if I'm being really
> stupid and an RTFM would readily solve my problem...)
>
> --
> Mark Hanford
>
> Putting POV code on the web? Make it look pretty with POV2HTML...
> http://www.hanfordonline.co.uk
>
>

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