Hi Weyert, So,
The 10 year anniversary site was made very closely to the way you have imagined. After lots of consideration, we went for the best looking combination. The earth itself was two .flv's... one going forward and one going in reverse. There was one transition to the higher resolution close-up image. The dots were mapped to the earth based on one snyched animated dot that was scaled and sequenced to the correct start frame. And the background was a scrolling bitmap that was also synched. While, I think this system has some excellent benefits in controlling the look and image quality, file size and performance issues can occur. If doing it again, I would like to explore doing something like Andre michelle's genius... http://lab.andre-michelle.com/earth Displacing the an image or even a series of images with layered clouds etc into one bitmap. Hope this helps... Mark Carolin On 4/13/07, Weyert de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi! I just saw the new website Ten Year Flash. It really looks nice. But could someone here share what you used for creating the Earth? How would have made the website like this: 1. some rotating video left to right, right to left. you cant rotate top-bottom etc. 2. reusable zoom in, and zoom out animation using the texture from NASA Marble project [1] using a reasonable resolution 3. create serie of pictures that has all major countries, and some times major cities in countries (i.e. east and west coast of north america) 4. creating image that adds the 'fogginess' which will blended with the picture of 2. 5. Some lang/lat projection system or something to show the items on the globe. How would you guys do it? Or more interesting would any of the creators of the site share information? I think I am gonna recreate this. [1] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_monthlies.html Yours, Weyert _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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