Tim Cook wrote:
> Yup.  The new Blue Marble dataset...5400x2700 version, June.  I'd really 
> like to play with the 500m/pixel set, but don't have any way of doing 
> so.  Would be nice if POV 4 were able to use very large images without 
> loading the whole thing into memory...by that time there'll probably be 
> 1m/pixel dataset available hehe.

Would it be possible to array multiple images? Have a whole pile of 
sphere segments each with it's own sub image? Or will that have the same 
problem? If so, what about just rendering the visible earth and not 
loading anything more than one grid unit around the other side?

Cheers!
Rick Measham

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