Patrick Elliott wrote:

> 1. Will this work with other shapes, like cylinders, boxes, etc. I mean, 
> and look right, since this is a projection of the "inside" of an object, 
> not the outside?

I think you should be ok with all star-shaped objects (i.e. those
which have a direct line of sight from any surface point to the
origin). Of course, you can only apply the texture to the same
object type (with identical proportions and centering).

> 2. How would I use this to do something like like a plasma ball. The 
> prior attempt at that borrowed code from someone else, using media. 

That would probably require to implement a new camera type in
POV-Ray such as "spherical_inverted". It may not be so useful to
"sculpt" objects containing internal 3D structure, though, as all
the environment and light interactions such as reflections and
shadows would be frozen in place.

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