# Single Azimuthal Segment Texture Distortion for Earth TextureMaptoSphere

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/single-azimuthal-segment-texture-distortion-for-earth-texturemaptosphere/783
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 23, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/single-azimuthal-segment-texture-distortion-for-earth-texturemaptosphere/783 "2018-10-23T17:48:57Z")
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### Author: ![banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/banesullivan/32/11714_2.png) [@banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/banesullivan)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/single-azimuthal-segment-texture-distortion-for-earth-texturemaptosphere/783/5 "2018-10-23T19:36:51Z")

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## Quick Fix

FYI, a quick fix to the seam issue: just set the _Start Theta_ to a small nonzero value such as 0.0001:

_Note: my texture is inverted but the seam looks pretty good_

 ![32%20PM](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/1X/517f668fb5ac90a5fa022819d07879a2ecf1fe31.jpeg)

vs.

 ![46%20PM](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/1X/9ffa4f6dc001413f080b42553cbf9d8c14f621ed.jpeg)

## Python Plugin

This would be incredibly easy/simple to implement as a Python plugin that would handle this by default. Not sure if this is the solution you are looking for though.

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