In article . net,
Richard Lamb wrote:

Still not Industrial Light and Magic, but a first step, anyway.

3D San Antonio sectional rendered on a rotating sphere.
aka: what cowboy astronauts think the world looks like.

Some people are already wondering, "Why? Why would anybody do that?"

Well, that's an interesting question.


caveats -

No executables, dlls, etc. involved.
It's just an animated Gif.

7604737 (count 'em)7,604,737 great big bytes.

I really did work at keeping the file size down.
But I dare say this one is for the fast lane exclusively.

Mot certified for navigation.
The source chart was out of date. (sorry)


http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tp-3/!sat.gif


So, who has the fastest rig?

Anybody significantly under five minutes?

5.227 seconds till the globe appeared and _started_ (jumpily) to rotate.
42.713 seconds til the download was complete, and the smooth rotation
kicked in.


Thats on a 1.5mbit/768k DSL -- 'theoretical maximum' download speed
would be about 39.5 seconds.