Several years ago a friend of mine asked me to make a program for mapping a globe onto a twenty-sided die. I wrote a simple Python script, some basic coordinate remapping and image processing with a simple GUI wrapped around it. The script takes an image that's a flat projected map of a planet, builds a virtual icosahedron around it, projects the image of each part of a globe onto the faces of the icosahedron, and then arranged them on an output image along with fold lines and glue tabs w...
