Struggled with that too. Decided to lock rotation to λ,φ only and rotate with alt key, since it's pretty uncommon. I should consider revisiting my project from

Struggled with that too. Decided to lock rotation to λ,φ only and rotate with alt key, since it's pretty uncommon. I should consider revisiting my project from earlier this year and implementing the described approach with versors from your example to simulate plate movement. http://mxfh.github.io/d3canvasglobes/ http://mxfh.github.io/d3canvasglobes/ (right now the mouse mapping behaves quite odd with rotated views)