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.
>



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