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  Re: image spherical projection and postscript.  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Feb 2008 07:29:08
Message: <47a46214@news.povray.org>
zeycus <mig### [at] onocom> wrote:
> I have a bitmap I want to project onto the surface of a sphere. I want to use
> spherical projection, so that the image is not distorted. The problem is that I
> want to control the angle covered (measured from the center of the sphere). One
> solution would be to increase the bitmap size with nothing around, but that is
> ugly. What is the correct way to do this?

  Apply this tip using the spherical warp:

http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/languageQandT.html#cylindricalrepeat

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                                                          - Warp


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