Re: OT: Currents, North, etc.

> I'm curious:  has anyone ever tried to make a globe of a con-planet?  I'd
> like to try and have several ideas, but thought I'd ask before re-inventing
> the wheel......
> For a first effort, I'm thinking of buying a largish beach ball and painting
> on it, but I can see how getting the lat. and long.lines straight and
> accurate might be a problem; or creating paper gores and pasting them on
> (the professional way I think). etc. etc.
> Is it possible to buy a blank globe, with lat. and long. already imprinted?
> Any suggestions?
>
One possible way could be to use a raytracing program (or similar)
which allows you to create a sphere and then add a graphic skin (ie
a rectangular map) to the surface. I've never tried the method, and I
don't know how common (or cheap) raytracing software is for
PC/mac/unix/linux. If it does work, then it would have the immediate
benefit of being rotatable on screen.

I've got some maps of my conworld on my website, but none in any great
detail and certainly nothing as sophisticated as a rotating globe.

Rik

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