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Re:Behind the Tech with John Carmack: 5k Immersive Video by psurge on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @01:58PM (#17348883)
The WorldWide Telescope uses this exact idea: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/docs/worldwidetelescopepro...

There are also other interesting spherical tessellations that could be used - one is implemented in Google's S2 geometry library, the other, HEALPix, is used for astronomical datasets:

http://s2geometry.io/resources/earthcube http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/427976/pdf

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