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Re: Globe Ogject ?? [message #18921] Wed, 09 February 2000 00:00
davidf is currently offline  davidf
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George Millward (george@theory.phys.ucl.ac.uk) writes:

> I am wanting to create a globe using object graphics. Previously I have
> used direct graphics
> to map my data (atmospheric model) onto a sphere using the map-set
> /satellite feature.
> Now I want to create a 3D globe object that contains the color data and
> can be freely rotated
> using the trackball object.
> Any ideas. Would this be a surface, or a volume or what ?

It would be an "orb". :-)

Look for orb__define.pro in the IDL_DIR/examples/objects directory.

Cheers,

David
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