# Texturing 3D sphere

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/texturing-3d-sphere/267503>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 1, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/texturing-3d-sphere/267503 "2008-08-01T21:39:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![DjPizat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@DjPizat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DjPizat)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/texturing-3d-sphere/267503/1 "2008-08-01T21:39:03Z")

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Hey Everyone,  
I am currently working on a project where i need to create and texture a 3D sphere in Papervision3D. The question that i have is what should the dimensions of the 2D image be in relation to the radius of the sphere. So say my sphere has a radius of 500 what would the width and height of the 2D image be? Does anyone know of a formula available to calculate these dimensions? Thanks.