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on that note, are you aware that the globe on stripe.com is rotating in the wrong direction?
by graphene 6y ago
on that note, are you aware that the globe on stripe.com is rotating in the wrong direction?
- ponker 6y agoThis is a tricky one. The majority of worldwide software revenue comes from companies in the North Hemisphere who read left-to-right, so most globes are oriented this way.
- graphene 6y agoCan't tell if sarcasm...? What I mean is that the globe should rotate towards the East, not towards the West. This is of course assuming a stationary camera!
- atonse 6y agoYes and the reply was saying that to the majority of readers (who read left to right), the globe spinning as it does, probably feels more subconsciously comfortable to our minds. It's an artistic interpretation of a globe. It's not meant to be a scientifically accurate representation (one could say that the oceans aren't grey either, or that countries aren't sets of dots, or that the Earth isn't a sphere but an oblong spheroid, slightly squished at the poles). Again, scientific accuracy isn't paramount here.
- zvorygin 6y agoThis is actually a very intersting tangent! If I visualize interacting with a physical globe, I'm going to spin it left, as if I was "reading" the globe left-to-right. The rotation displayed on the stripe website is not the rotation of the Earth, it's the rotation of a globe!
- yencabulator 6y agoIt's not portraying any sunlight, so just think of it as the camera rotating around the globe.