3d scan of imperfect globe to a 2d Equirectangular Projection

[selden]

I'll have to check that out, thanks for telling me about it.

For more information, see http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~arcus/mmps/

A limitation of MMPS is that it was written for Linux. While I found it relatively easy to recompile it for use with Cygwin under Windows 7 (which is what I use), others might be less comfortable doing that. (In principle, at least, I could provide the Windows binaries.) An alternative, if you aren't already using Linux, might be to use one of the Linux environments available for Windows 10.

The camera at the object's origin, in orthographic view, 6 Renders in Blender along the preset views of: left, right, front, back, top, bottom. 8192x8192, outputting as a .tiff file. I don't know if this is going to work or if these are the correct settings.

That procedure seems reasonable to me. Combining the resulting images so their borders aren't noticeable might be challenging.

I originally used an Artec Space Spider to 3d scan the physical globe into the digital medium.

Aha! Not as simplistic as I was thinking.