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Re:Behind the Tech with John Carmack: 5k Immersive Video by Retric on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:25PM (#17348548)
Quick edit, it's 4pi r I was thinking volume for a second there.

As to tiling, I am saying if cut a sphere into 5120 slices, and the middle slice is fine with 5120 pixels. Then the poles are going to have ~1 pixel on them. How you tile them is really a question of tradeoffs.

Re:Behind the Tech with John Carmack: 5k Immersive Video by cma on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:27PM (#17348563)
I think you should draw a diagram and link it.

> As to tiling, I am saying if cut a sphere into 5120 slices, and the middle slice is fine with 5120 pixels.

What kind of slices? Like sections of an orange? Like longitude?

Re:Behind the Tech with John Carmack: 5k Immersive Video by Retric on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:41PM (#17348720)
I was thinking lines of latitude.