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WebGL Realistic Earth with Carl Sagan quote
- tgreenhaw 11y agoYou really should give attribution to Carl Sagan
- insider03 11y agoIn the title of this post? I will edit it right now. I saw the attribution of Carl Sagan in the credits of the project.
- jheriko 11y agothose blue marble 2012 textures are still awesome. webgl thing, okay for a mist shrouded sphere. technically worth approximately nothing though... :)
- WA 11y agoShould've used one of these as background music :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
- insider03 11y agoThese would have totally rocked!
- cturhan 11y agoGreat Job. I liked it. How did you add lightning effects? Is it procedurally generated?
- white-flame 11y agoIt'd be nice if it to panned out in an approximation of the original pale blue dot picture.
- BuschnicK 11y agoNice. I did a similar rendering about a year ago: http://operation-survival.appspot.com/html/index.html http://operation-survival.appspot.com/html/index.html With a bit of technical details and ideas of where the project is headed here: http://blog.buschnick.net/2014/02/webgl-earth.html http://blog.buschnick.net/2014/02/webgl-earth.html
- mmastrac 11y agoThat was great. I would have loved to have watched with a virtual Sagan narrating -- I heard his voice in my head the whole time. The lightning on the dark side of Earth was a neat effect. Might want to consider flickering it randomly rather than flashing it to make it feel a little more realistic. Well done.
- malkia 11y agoLovely! Very touching...
- j_m_b 11y agoWhy not use the Carl Sagan Audio? Here it is without any music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05xxeCdhSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05xxeCdhSo
- ElijahLynn 11y agoMaybe because they don't know what the Fair Use Act is. http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
- ElijahLynn 11y agoDoesn't work on Ubuntu 14.04 in 64-bit Chrome 42.0.2311.90. No JS errors in console either when clicking "begin".
- seanalltogether 11y agoNice work, I've been putting together something like this as well in my spare time, been trying to nail down the right shaders to handle the atmospheric glow as well as morphing cloud layers as they move. Trying to see how possible it is to come close to this effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybh11kcDhfM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybh11kcDhfM
- Ciantic 11y agoIt's nice. However text is too small. They should try to mimick TV font sizes, that is huge so one can read them without focusing on the text.
- biot 11y agoThis quote is great, but the visual ruins the context of a pale blue dot. From [0], the reference was to the Voyager probe taking an image of the Earth from near the edge of the solar system and the Earth appears as a dot less than a pixel in size. From that perspective, seeing majestic images of the Earth larger than life and in your face is contrary to what Sagan was saying. With the outstanding visuals in this demo, one might get the sense of a majestic world full of opportunity, worthy of building armies to conquer and spill blood for each chunk of land; the very antithesis of his point of how tiny and insignificant our world and the people on it are. The real pale blue dot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blu... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
- coherentpony 11y agoThis crashed my browser. Firefox 37.0.2.