World Wind Java Teaser
Written by Chad on January 3rd, 2007Ok, so January 3rd has come and for the most part gone. And like all deadlines.. the WWJ announcement has slipped to later this month.
But don’t fret! I have some teaser pictures of a version of the WWJava running… in a web browser! 
As the applet loads, this is the view you are greeted with. It is fairly basic but you can rotate and zoom in. Left click and move the mouse to rotate. Left double click to zoom in and right double click to zoom out. Notice the frame rate in the upper right hand corner.. I was average 70 FPS most the time.
Rotating the globe. The mouse pointer didn’t capture in the screen shot; but where the mouse is the latitude, longitude and the elevation of that point is shown just under the globe.
In this image we are zooming in on Spain. Now instead of blue marble, the LandSat imagery will start to load in with the next zoom in level.
Now the LandSat imagery is loading and replacing the Blue Marble NG imagery of the default globe. Notice that the elevation is showing the “depth” now for the water in the straight.
Last teaser picture of WWJava. Notice in all the screen shots that the frame rate stayed fairly high through all the use.
Not bad for a slimed down test applet of WWJava
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..”Notice the frame rate in the upper right hand corner.. I was average 70 FPS most the time” ..
i wonder what FPS rate you would get by tilting about 74° and zooming in at least to an altitude of around 8.000 meters (for viewing higer res imagery)?
not one of this teaser pictures shows a “tilt-view”…. hopefully just a coincidence ;)…
anyway. i still doubt, that WWJ will beat Vitaly Pronkin’s/Patrick Murris “WW2Dplus one” …….
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Great idea to have WW in a browser! do you have any idea when this java release is coming?