I've seen many 3d globes spinning around with day/night shadowing, but the mere inclusion of the sun (however simple, as it is here with a fake lens flare effect) makes it feel <i>so</i> much more real and less uncanny.
I created the same thing a while back, but using the following globe: <a href="http://www.chromeexperiments.com/globe" rel="nofollow">http://www.chromeexperiments.com/globe</a><p>I quite liked using the spikes to show traffic volume.<p>Very cool globe though, love how smooth it is compared to the one I mentioned above & the lens flare!!!
Very cool. Just gave it a test-drive with my company's domain. It seems visually spectacular and data-rich. Most importantly, the trends feature is logically organized with quick renderings of charts/textual data as needed.<p>Great work. Might just talk management into signing up for out other domains too!
Hey, where are the aliens? I want UFO: Enemy Unknown[1] clone in the browser!<p>(not to be confused with XCOM: Enemy Unknown[2])<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Enemy_Unknown" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Enemy_Unknown</a>
[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown</a>
Argh, the usual webGL problem: "Your browser doesn't support webGL. Sadface :("<p>... despite webGL working fine in this browser (chrome) in the past...sometimes... ><<p>[Sometimes it's due to bogus browser detection, but usually that tends to be "chrome OK! everything else FAIL!"]