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Derived from Mountain High Maps, Digital Wisdom used 3D animation applications to wrap a flat world map on to a spherical wireframe and generate a series of rotating globes. The Animated Globes series is primarily intended to be part of Multimedia CD-ROM or Software applications due to large file sizes. With further manipulation using GIF Animation software, globe sequences appropriately sized for Web Animation can be derived. As part of the Animations package, the original texture maps are supplied for clients to customize and render their own style of rotating globe. Pre-rendered styles in 9 variations offer physical and political, solid ocean fill and ocean floor relief, cloudy or clear sky, blue, silver or black sea options to give a wide choice of styles.

Colorized globes are presented in a variety of animations, showing revolving globes, fly-pasts and other sequences using QuickTime for Macintosh, QuickTime .MOV files and .AVI Video for Windows files. In the table of 38 animated globes listed below, "fps" refers to frames per second and "size" refers to QuickTime view screen size in pixels, time of sequence in seconds, file size in megabytes, and color variations. Click on Style letter to view the texture and appearance of the globe animation (single frame).
Move your cursor over "View" to see an Animation in action.     Click here to see the Variations of Style
 
Fly-in and fly-out globes 160 x 120 pixels, 16 second, 15 frames per second, 256 colors
Map Type Function Size fps Colors Sec Mb Style Description
801 Fly-in Full 360 160 x 120 15 256 16 1.2 E Land & blue sea floor relief
802 Fly-out Full 360 160 x 120 15 256 16 1.2 E Land & blue sea floor relief
 
Fly-in and fly-out globes 320 x 240 pixels, 16 second, 15 frames per second, 256 colors
Map Type Function Size fps Colors Sec Mb Style Description
803 Fly-in Full 360 320 x 240 15 256 16 4.3 E Land & blue sea floor relief
804 Fly-out Full 360 320 x 240 15 256 16 4.5 E Land & blue sea floor relief
 
Fly-in and fly-out globes 320 x 240 pixels, 16 second, 24 fps, 1000's of colors
Map Type Function Size fps Colors Sec Mb Style Description
805 Fly-in Full 360 320 x 240 24 1000's 16 10.5 D Land & blue sea floor relief + clouds
 
Fly-by globes, various pixel sizes, 8 second, 15 frames per second, 256 colors
Map Type Function Size fps Colors Sec Mb Style Description
811 Fly-by Exit base left 230 x 230 15 256 8 0.3 D Land & blue sea floor relief + clouds
812 Fly-by Exit base mid 280 x 184 15 256 8 0.4 A Land & black sea floor relief
813 Fly-by Exit base right 230 x 230 15 256 8 0.6 D Land & blue sea floor relief + clouds
814 Fly-by Exit top left 230 x 230 15 256 8 0.5 J Cube land, blue sea floor relief + clouds
815 Fly-by Exit top mid 280 x 184 15 256 8 0.4 C Land, plain blue ocean + clouds
816 Fly-by Exit top right 230 x 230 15 256 8 0.7 E Land & blue sea floor relief
 
Fly-by globes, various pixel sizes, 8 second, 15 frames per second, 1,000's of colors
Map Type Function Size fps Colors Sec Mb Style Description
821 Fly-by Exit base left 230 x 230 15 1000's 8 0.5 D Land, blue sea floor relief + clouds
822 Fly-by Exit base mid 280 x 184 15 1000's 8 0.7 A Land & black sea floor relief
823 Fly-by Exit base right 230 x 230 15 1000's 8 1.1 D Land, blue sea floor relief + clouds
824 Fly-by Exit top left 230 x 230 15 1000's 8 0.8 J Cube land, blue sea floor relief + clouds
825 Fly-by Exit top mid 280 x 184 15 1000's 8 0.6 C Land & plain blue ocean + clouds
826 Fly-by Exit top right 230 x 230 15 1000's 8 1.1 E Land & blue sea floor relief
 
Rotating globes 160 x 120 pixels, 8 second, 15 frames per second, 256 colors
Map Type Function Size fps Colors Sec Mb Style Description
831 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 256 8 0.6 B Land relief and plain blue ocean
832 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 256 8 0.4 A Land relief and plain black ocean
833 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 256 8 0.8 C Land relief, plain blue ocean + clouds
834 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 256 8 1.0 D Land relief, blue ocean relief + clouds
835 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 256 8 1.0 E Land relief and blue sea floor relief
 
Rotating globes 160 x 120 pixels, 8 second, 15 frames per second, 1,000's of colors
Map Type Function Size fps Colors Sec Mb Style Description
841 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 1000's 8 1.1 B Land relief and plain blue ocean
842 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 1000's 8 0.8 A Land relief and plain black ocean
843 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 1000's 8 1.4 C Land relief and plain blue ocean + clouds
844 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 1000's 8 2.1 D Land relief, blue sea floor relief + clouds
845 Rotation Full 360 160 x 120 15 1000's 8 2.0 E Land relief and blue sea floor relief
 
Rotating globes 320 x 240 pixels, 8 second, 15 frames per second, 256 colors
Map Type Function Size fps Colors Sec Mb Style Description
851 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 15 256 8 2.1 B Land relief and plain blue ocean
852 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 15 256 8 1.6 A Land relief and plain black ocean
853 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 15 256 8 2.9 C Land relief, plain blue ocean + clouds
854 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 15 256 8 4.1 D Land relief, blue sea floor relief + clouds
855 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 15 256 8 3.9 E Land relief and blue sea floor relief
 
Rotating globes 320 x 240 pixels, 8 second, 24 frames per second, 1,000's of colors
Map Type Function Size fps Colors Sec Mb Style Description
861 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 24 1000's 8 4.0 B Land relief and plain blue ocean
862 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 24 1000's 8 9.5 D Land relief, blue sea floor relief + clouds
863 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 24 1000's 8 5.5 C Land relief, plain blue ocean + clouds
864 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 24 1000's 8 10.7 F Land relief, blue sea floor relief and lat/long
865 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 24 1000's 8 10.2 G Land relief, gray sea floor relief + borders
866 Rotation Full 360 320 x 240 24 1000's 8 8.3 H Land relief, gray sea floor relief + borders

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