NASA World Wind

robnugent · February 2, 2005, 8:20am

Folks,

This is a little off topic, but if you haven’t seen and played with the following it’s well worth a look by anyone into 3D.

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

A big download but very impressive.

Rob

Spasi · February 2, 2005, 5:12pm

Unbelievable…

I’m here:

worldwind://goto/world=Earth&lat=40.84715&lon=25.87692&view=0.14308

DQuinlan · February 2, 2005, 7:37pm

thats pretty cool , I didn’t know you could do THAT
I’m right here :

worldwind://goto/world=Earth&lat=53.35737&lon=-6.29195&view=0.09408

robnugent · February 3, 2005, 6:01am

For the record, I’m here:

worldwind://goto/world=Earth&lat=50.97700&lon=-1.40428&view=0.12607

Badmi · February 3, 2005, 5:14pm

It is a very cool program although some of the data is old.

rune.aasgaard · February 4, 2005, 6:13am

Well, my virtual globe is just as cool, does not require a huge download and is written in java.

And, I’m here:
http://globe.sintef.no/VirtualGlobeStarter.cgi?dataset=http://globe.sintef.no/globe.vgml&viewpoint=10.68108660628978,59.84667740311601,3729.083361679981,21.485360413984008,-26.057910063400094

Spasi · February 4, 2005, 7:40am

[quote]Well, my virtual globe is just as cool, does not require a huge download and is written in java.
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I’m very, very impressed! You’re humiliating NASA with this! ;D

rune.aasgaard · February 4, 2005, 8:56am

Thanks!

I’m really grateful for NASA giving us all those data for free, but I’m also a little envious when they are getting more publicity (even on a java GL list!) for a program that I find inferior on several points (especially performance).