klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) (11/17/90)
I've copied xglobe.tar.Z to expo/contrib. It animates a spinning globe, using 128 maps of the world, each with a radius of 320 pixels. The maps are in X bitmap format, which is a little slow, but very portable and editable. xglobe has only been tested on DEC Ultrix workstations, but porting to other systems should be just a matter of editing the Imakefile. It does require Motif (either 1.0 or 1.1). Documentation is in (ASCII) DEC on-line help format. If you don't have the DEC help widget, specify that in the Imakefile. I have another program that draws arbitrarily sized color outline maps using coast lines, islands, lakes, rivers, country boundries, and state boundries, but this is too messy to post right now. Maybe after New Years. -- Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee