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3 Oct 2024 21:20:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Happy Birthday Ron - HBRon.jpg  
From: Marc Schimmler
Date: 4 Oct 1999 10:41:30
Message: <37F8BC97.3B16F8C0@ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Tika wrote:
> 
> How did you do that Earth? Looks so real!
> 
> --
> 
> Tika
> 
> Tika's Graphics: http://www.5thpower.com/tika/

1. get an image map of earth from the web.
    for example: http://www.radcyberzine.com/xglobe/index.html#maps

2. create a sphere that you overlay with this image via image_map and
the map_type for spherical maps (I think it was map_type 1). Look into
the manual for image_maps.

Voila!


Marc

-- 
Marc Schimmler


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