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I was at the Lenox Mall Apple Store the other day, and noticed the coolest looking application running on the 30" Apple Display. It had a rotating Earth, with cities highlighting and I believe it was displaying weather conditions. I know for a fact it wasn't Earth Desk, because that was running on the other half of the screen.
Does anyone have any idea what the software could have been? Thanks!
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I have OSXPlanet. Has numerous settings for shape, lighting, cities, cloud maps etc. I tried several and consider it the cream of the crop amongst the free ones. I have mine set to show a round earth, with clouds and city lights (it updates in real time .. the pic shows exactly where the sun is right now). Click on the thumb to see full size
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whoa, that's pretty cool. Can you choose any perspective you want?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Krusty:
[B]I have OSXPlanet. Has numerous settings for shape, lighting, cities, cloud maps etc. I tried several and consider it the cream of the crop amongst the free ones. I have mine set to show a round earth, with clouds and city lights (it updates in real time .. the pic shows exactly where the sun is right now). Click on the thumb to see full size
Very nice! I'm not sure if that was the one at the store, but it is very cool nonetheless. Thanks for the post!
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Yes, you can choose from a LARGE number of views. Most are some sort of flat projection .. I chose the orthographic globe view. You can choose to show sun shadow, clouds, whatever. Here is a little snippet of how I use to have it set (sorry the pic was actually meant to show something else .. but at least you can see the wide degree of ways that you can view the earth). It all updates every 1 minute to 1 hour ... as often as you like. Again ... I tried a bunch of them and I think this one was the best of the free ones I tried.
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Does it take up much CPU or GPU power (or make the fan run a lot)?
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It was most likely EarthBrowser.
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That's the one! Great! Thank you very much!
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It could have been World Book, there is a great rotating globe in the Atlas module.
The software come free on iMacs, eMacs, iBooks.
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