POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Sphere with longitudes and latitudes? : Re: Sphere with longitudes and latitudes? Server Time
31 Jul 2024 04:21:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sphere with longitudes and latitudes?  
From: Chris B
Date: 11 Nov 2007 17:09:00
Message: <47377d7c@news.povray.org>
"Hadmut Danisch" <had### [at] danischde> wrote in message 
news:473776ca@news.povray.org...
> Mike Williams wrote:
>
>>  texture {
>>   pigment {radial frequency 30
>>     colour_map{[0.1 rgb 1][0.1 rgbt <0,0,0,1>]}
>>   }
>
>
> Just a little detail problem:
>
> while this does what I am looking for in principle, there's one
> problem: The line is not of constant width. The closer it gets to the
> poles, the smaller it gets, like a slice of cake. Becomes highly visible
> when the frequence gets lower, e.g. frequency 4
>
> regards
> Hadmut

That's the problem that the one on 
http://lib.povray.org/searchcollection/index.php is designed to avoid 
(search for 'GridLines').

Regards,
Chris B.


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