# Cube mapping suggestions

**URL:** <https://forum.electromage.com/t/cube-mapping-suggestions/1093>\
**Category:** Patterns and Code\
**Created:** [March 22, 2021, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/cube-mapping-suggestions/1093 "2021-03-22T04:56:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.electromage.com/t/cube-mapping-suggestions/1093/4 "2021-03-22T17:10:51Z")

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Do you want it as a 2D surface, pre folding?

![Screen Shot 2021-03-22 at 10.05.04 AM](https://forum.electromage.com/uploads/default/original/1X/73ba09d62341105491f39e298cd7582d80099b76.png)

[This code may help](https://forum.electromage.com/t/mapping-matrix-displays/608/6) - it lets you arrange a number of 2D matrices and rotate as needed.

The problem with this of course is that the edges don’t always have adjacent 2D coordinates, as @Scruffynerf mentions.

Or as a 6 walls in 3D space, like the built in example?

 ![Screen Shot 2021-03-22 at 10.06.00 AM](https://forum.electromage.com/uploads/default/original/1X/1336ef474a03f5f74d9d3dd5184d5cd72b916314.png)

You could run that 3D cube through some transformations and get polar coordinates - treating it as a sphere, and get a 2D output (like lat + long on a globe).

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