Re: 3D plot of globe (map of world)?
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- Subject: [mg67911] Re: [mg67882] 3D plot of globe (map of world)?
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:06:22 -0400 (EDT)
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the mathematica user's wiki has a mathemtica/direct 3d tutorial written by Luc Barthelet one of the examples is a texture mapped 3d globe http://www.mathematica-users.org/webMathematica/wiki/wiki.jsp?pageName=NETLink_and_Directx On 7/11/06, Xiangdong Liu <liu at vtaix.cc.vt.edu> wrote: > Hi! > > Not sure if this question has been asked before but does anyone know how > to make a 3D plot of the world or globe? Or at least the map of a continent > on a 3D globe? > > With the `WorldPlot` package, you can plot 2D world map or country/continent > maps, with various 3D-to-2D projections. Yet, Mathematica does not seem to > provide a means to easily plot the map data in 3D (well as far as I know). > > Mathematica does allow the per-country map data (polygons) to be referenced > but does not allow (as far as I can see) map data of a continent to be > referenced collectively. I am looking therefore into if I can do the > tedious country by country plots and then combine them. Yet, the map data > for some countries, such as US, consists multiple disjoint polygons. But > if you use ListPlot or ListPlot3D, Mathematica connects all polygons as if > they were one, adding superfluous edges. Manually separating map data for > such countries into multiple indpendent lists and plotting the lists > separately and then combining them, whew, seems to be too tedious to be > doable. > > Thanks! > > > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/
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- 3D plot of globe (map of world)?
- From: liu@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Xiangdong Liu)
- 3D plot of globe (map of world)?