Re: Drawing a globe, with countries and great circle routes
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- Subject: [mg48081] Re: Drawing a globe, with countries and great circle routes
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 05:20:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
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Hi, you mean somthing like: http://phong.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~kuska/EarthPicture.zip with the textures from http://phong.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~kuska/oglscript/EarthMap.png http://phong.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~kuska/oglscript/CloudMap.png ?? Regards Jens AES/newspost wrote: > > I'd like to draw a globe (as seen from space) with countries and oceans > (in color if possible), maybe even some topography; be able to overlay > great circle routes between specified points; and then view the result > from different points in space either by rotating the globe in 3D > fashion or redrawing the image. > > Any Mathematica packages, freeware or commercial, that will do this?
