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Dear All, I need to plot some points on the surface of a sphere, but I am not sure about how to proceed to achieve this in R (or if it is suitable for this at all). In any case, I am not looking for really fancy visualizations; for instance you can consider the images between formulae 5 and 6 at http://bit.ly/hOgK9h Any suggestion is appreciated. Cheers Lorenzo

Dear all, Below is some code where I try to get plotmath symbols in an rgl plot. Duncan Murdoch kindly suggested to use a "sprite" for this. As you can see, on can get it to work, but my knowledge about grid and rgl is too limited to perfectly solve the problem. 1) As you can see (please rotate the plot a little bit so that (0,0,0) is "in front"), the quality of the .png