The method of producing such an all-directional picture is known from the disclosure in the publication ???ck time VR-An Image-Based Approach to Virtual Environment Navigation???, S. E. Chen, Computer Graphics SIGGRAPH, pp. 29-38, 1995. [0006] To reproduce, for display, a picture viewable from freely selected viewpoints by reading it from a storage medium such as DVD or the like, a viewpoint from