Over at http://www.plattenhof.com/ehtml/index.html, if you go to virtual 
tour you can get a whole pile of 360 degree photos, taken for use in 
quicktime VR presentations.

It struck me that it should be possible to image_map these onto the 
inside of a sphere in POVRay and be able to view them just like in QTVR.

The following is my quick-scene test. It doesn't work and produces 
horribly distorted pictures. I'm sure I'm missing something simple!

Learned ones, am I just crazy thinking I should be able to do this?

I'm convinced the pictures are 360 degrees left-to-right, but I don't 
think they're complete top-to-bottom, so I probably need to adjust my 
scale a bit to compensate.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers!
Rick Measham

P.S. If you don't want to go to the site and click about to get to the 
pictures, the one in my scene is at 
http://www.plattenhof.com/pict/360_lobby.jpg


camera {
   location  <0.0, 0.0, 0.0>
   direction 1.5*z
   right     x*image_width/image_height
   look_at   <50.0, 0.0,  00.0>
}


sphere {
	0, 50
	pigment {
		image_map {jpeg "360_lobby.jpg"}
		 scale 100
		 translate -50
	}
	finish { ambient 0.9 }
}

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