Stuff in Space - Hackdot

Re:Stuff in Space by dufferzafar on Monday July 06, 2015 @06:35PM (#9842603)

Does anyone know how that big earth is created? I saw something similar on the Google I/O '15 event page too.

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Re:Stuff in Space by mooogs on Monday July 06, 2015 @07:06PM (#9842720)

It's created with WebGL. There is a library called Three.js which makes it super easy to work with WebGL and create 3D objects if you're interested.

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Re:Stuff in Space by ssalazar on Monday July 06, 2015 @06:38PM (#9842608)

Pretty sure thats just a textured sphere?

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