"Basiclife" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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>
> Jsut to clarify, I meant that if I were to take a rectangular image of a
> grid and place it on sphere, I would like the lines to be mapped in such a
> way as the would appear to be lines of lat/long.
>
> To try and sort my ramblings out a little more:
>
> the vertical lines would be x distance apart at the equator and 0 distance
> apart @ the pole, horizontal lines would be x distance apart continuously,
> as in a globe.
>

Hi Again,

That's really what the spherical mapping does, so if you have an image file 
containing a grid then the top edge of the image will be mapped to a single 
point at the centre of the top of the object. The midline of the image will 
be mapped to the 'equator'.

Regards,
Chris B.

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