Hi there I belive you would be reffering to the equirectangular projection.
There are multiple applications that can create such images. I have been playing with PTGui which does the image stitching and does it pretty good too. Hope this is helpful Cheers On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Li <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm no 3D designer, but I think you're talking about a deformation on an > image that is compensated when that image is mapped on to a sphere. I think > the pre-deformation is called 180 or 360 panoramic, like this: > > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Berlin_Hauptbahnhof_180_panorama_top_level.jpg > but inverted. I'm sure there is software out there that can prepare an > image so that when it is applied to a sphere, the deformation makes it look > natural again. I'm sure there are specific terms for what I'm referring to. > -- Radiceski Darko University of Wollongong Australia SIFE - UOW Chapter - Alumni CASUAL ACADEMIC STAFF TEACHING - UOW SITACS (School of Information Technology and Computer Science,University of Wollongong) Univeristy of Wollongong - Alumni
