[GRASSLIST:5578] Re: spherical globe projection in nviz

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:47:56PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it will have been the SG3d software which only runs on SGI.
The source code is included in 5.0.x:
src.contrib/GMSL/SG3d/

[BTW: There is also
 src.contrib/GMSL/sg4d/
]

Kind regards

 Markus Neteler