Orthographic

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Last edited Oct 21, 2018

Created on Sep 20, 2012

This example shows a globe rendered with the orthographic projection, displaying landmasses and country boundaries over a graticule, all clipped to a sphere. The visualization uses D3 v3’s `d3.geo.orthographic` for projection, `d3.geo.path` for drawing, and `d3.geo.graticule` for the grid. Land and boundary data come from a TopoJSON world file (world-50m), processed with `topojson.feature` and `topojson.mesh`. The sphere is drawn twice: once as a black stroke and once as a white fill, with the land and boundaries layered in between.

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The orthographic projection is available as d3.geo.orthographic. See also the interactive version, the rotating versions and the animated world tour.

gpl-3.0 Licensed

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