23 Oct
2004
23 Oct
'04
3:12 p.m.
On 19/10/2004, at 4:32 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 17:41 +0000, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Have a look at OSXplanet (http://otte.ucsc.edu/~gabriel/osxplanet.html)
for a more modern version (that knows about the poles and lots of other
things).
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
Melbourne | "If soccer was meant to be played in the
Australia | air, the sky would be painted green"
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:46:49AM +0000, Jules
Richardson wrote:
Now that's pretty cool. Will you be releasing it into the wider
world? :)
I wonder if a modern version is overdue that does do some pretty good
shading approximation of all the landmasses? And even better, some form
of chaotic cloud approximation to give it that real 'earth from space'
feel! I remember thinking how cool Linux was because it
had xearth and
Windows
didn't :-)
That is my background on my _on-topic_ SPARC desktop.
I've been hacking xearth recently to render the Polar regions white.
Unfortunately, the shape tables are not commented, so I have to go
through manually to determine what shapes correspond to what land
features.