This works by taking a 360 x 180 pixel image and converting the position of the pixels to degrees longitude and latitude. The brightness of each pixel dictates the altitude of each dot. Drag the mouse to move the globe.
Built with Processing
A while ago I made a 3D world news map using Flash. You can do a lot of things with Flash, but the calculations needed for 3D are really too processor-intensive. I’ve been looking at doing a similar sort of thing but in Java, specifically, using the Processing environment. Here’s a screenshot of work in progress.
My name is Al Petfield and I was born in London, UK, on March 14th, 1971. I now live in Bristol. I'm a web designer/developer and I'm interested in painting, drawing, digital art, music, photography, Flash, astronomy, cinema, language, semiotics and the usual web stuff.