Duke Nukem wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to render a picture of the earth. But, the image I'm using
> for the map only covers half of the sphere. So, there are 2 copies of
> the image, one on each half of the sphere. I want to wrap the whole
> image around the entire sphere just once.
> 
> The help file doesn't help me on this one. Any assistance is
> appreciated. Thanks.

sphere { <0,0,0>, 0.5
 pigment {
  image_map {gif "earth.gif" map_type 1 interpolate 2 }
   translate -0.5
 }
 scale < your scale >
}

map_type 1 gives spherical image mapping. The default is type 0 which is planer.

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Ken Tyler

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