A tour of the world in d3.js

Now all it needs is the Animaniacs to sing along with it [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtdQ8bTvRc</a>]

A very impressive demo. Almost equally impressive is the fact that this can be done in less than 100 lines of (relatively readable) Javacsript.

There's a risk of turning it into too much of a gimmick, but I'd love if travel sites started doing things like this. Showing you a flythrough of where you'll be going as they pull up trip prices, for example

Unrelated, but does anyone have an idea why all of the countries appear in alphabetical order but then suddenly Spain jumps up in the middle of all the E-s? The UK follows soon after. All I could think of was Spain=Espana, but England definitely isn't the same as the UK..

Is it just me, or is there something odd about the projection? I think it's a little too flat... it feels weird.<p>That aside, very neat. Yet more motivation to learn d3.

This is a classic example of where Flash excels over the over-hyped HTML 5. The demo is very very sluggish and laggy on my Laptop (Chrome, WIN 8, C2D 2.2GHZ, 4mb Cache, 4Gigs RAM). If the author had designed the same thing in Flash,<p>1) He could have done it with less lines of code.<p>2) He could have done it with smoother animations and could have added more interactivity.<p>I'm not bashing the author, just suggesting a viable alternative.<p>Unfortunately, the unwanted HTML5 hype is just killing the platform. And the platform (I personally believe) is in the wrong hands, because they haven't marketed it well (IMO).

I didn't know France was in Europe AND South America. Weird world tour.

Jesus, Russia.

The framerate is abysmal on an iPad3.