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"Matt" <matt_evans.nospam@ncsu.edu> wrote in message <h61s8l$ph0$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Roger -- thanks for your reply. I have seen many papers that discuss the USE of the cubed sphere, but none that address the generation of said sphere. Perhaps this problem is trivial for topologists or computer scientists, but I am neither. Could you be so kind as to point me in the direction of some of these references.
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> Matt

  Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, Matt.  What I meant was that this problem undoubtedly involves a very extensive programming effort even if good algorithms have been devised.  In other words, it is the opposite of being too trivial; it is not trivial enough.  It is for this reason that I deem it inappropriate here in this newsgroup.  We prefer answering questions that can be explained in just a few lines of code, and I seriously doubt that that would be true for generating cubed spheres, particularly of the generality of an arbitrary number of tiles per face that you are looking for.

  You might check on the Matlab File Exchange to see if anyone has taken the trouble to deal with it.  I do see a www site that seems to be concerned with this area and  involves matlab routines:

 http://mitgcm.org/r2_web_testing/latest/online_documents/node227.html

Roger Stafford