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| Stephen Brooks 2002-10-30 20:45:40 | I took two world-map projections off the internet and made a program to wrap them around a sphere and then blend between the two. I'm not quite sure why, but I wanted to do this. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| [DPC] Jive 2002-10-31 02:28:08 | I bet one of those bright lights in Holland is the city i live in  |
| DrHanser 2002-10-31 05:18:45 | It looks very similar to xPlanet, which changes your desktop background in various ways to show the world as it appears at night. Here's a screenshot of my desktop: Sorry it's 0.03MB. I can't abide using anything but low quality rescaled JPGs for screenshots. -- The mark of an educated man is one who knows a lot about something, and a little about everything. [This message was edited by Stephen Brooks on 2002-Nov-05 at 20:18.] |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-10-31 05:39:19 | Come to think of it Celestia does a thing like this too. I would have uploaded that image as another one in my images folder, but it's a derivative of other images that are probably copyrighted. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
| Lord Groundhog 2002-11-05 10:14:18 | i foresee that if this page attracts much of this kind of traffic, the download time will gradually approach the speed of mallards swimming in a tarpit... just a thought. -- peace. LG [This message was edited by Lord Groundhog on 2002-Nov-05 at 17:35.] |
| Stephen Brooks 2002-11-05 13:18:40 | That has now been dealt with. "As every 11-year-old kid knows, if you concentrate enough Van-der-Graff generators and expensive special effects in one place, you create a spiral space-time whirly thing, AND an interesting plotline" |
