Re: How do I tile a sphere ?

"fungus" <openglMYSOCKS@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jun 2, 3:24 am, "jbwest" <jbw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> In fact, you don't need a hugely big initial texture. You don't need
one 
>> any
>> bigger than twice the screen resolution.
>
> 2048x2048 is the most you can expect from the average
> graphics card.
>
> "Twice the screen resolution" is optimistic on many
> machines.
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1024 (the vertical extent of an unclipped sphere) isn't much less than 
vertical screen res on a typical rig -- and that would have to be a 
full-screen window. So 2kx2k is pretty close, given that you only have the

full pixel size at the meridian, and everything else on a sphere is
sampled 
down anyway.

-jbw