3D Earth
Peter Nederlof has created this highly detailed model of a 3D rotating Earth complete with cloud eco system.
A Canvas view of the World
Comments from the Author:
This demo shows the earth, using a collada file for the mesh and texture map, and a custom animated texture.
Comments
Jeff Raymond
3D Earth works correctly in Safari Version 4.0.5 (6531.22.7) under OSX 10.6.3
Posted on May 10, 2010
Elvis Zhou
It slow downs my Chrome seriously (5.0.375.38beta) in mac os 10.6.3.
Posted on May 12, 2010
Ken Andrade
Smoothest in Chrome 5.0.307.7, a bit jerky in Safari 4.0.5 (6531.22.7), significant sluggishness in Firefox 3.6.3; all under OS X 10.6.3, Core i5
Posted on May 12, 2010
threecee
is the Earth rotating in the wrong direction? (west instead of east?)
Posted on May 14, 2010
Jan
threecee is correct – otherwise: neat!
Posted on May 19, 2010
Ken
Textures look “wobbly” on both the surface and the clouds on Chrome 4.1.249.1064 (45376) on Windows XP. Maybe 25% slower but solid in Firefox 3.6.3.
Posted on May 26, 2010
Vassil
Only some polygons seen. You cannot see the earth on HTC Desire Android 2.1.
Posted on June 2, 2010
man
slow very slow
Posted on June 9, 2010
DriverOp
Works in Opera 10.53+.
Earth rotates backwards but I think author intention was not to show a rotating earth but how earth looks from an orbiting satelite…
Posted on June 15, 2010
BobC
Yes, it works in Opera 10.53 and Opera 10.60B1 (about 10% faster than 10.53), but they are both EXTREMELY slow compared to Firefox (let alone Chrome!)…
Opera needs to make Canvas drawing faster!
Posted on June 23, 2010
rycamor
Very nice… runs smoothly on Firefox 4 beta, CPU usage around 40%.
Posted on July 2, 2010
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