[GRASSLIST:5548] Re: spherical globe projection in nviz

[Eric G. Miller]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:26:09PM -0500, William W. Hargrove wrote:
> Don't I remember that nviz used to be able to wrap lat-lon rasters onto a
> spherical globe.
> 
> I think that Bill Brown even made a cover of Grassclippings with such a globe
> mapping (perhaps I show my age here  ;-)  ).
> 
> Can it still do that?    How?

AFAIK, the OpenGL NVIZ has never done that.  Perhaps an Irix version?
While not exactly GRASS, the program Xplanet can do that with a suitable
image input (http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/).

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