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Aesthetic Submarine Cables Globe

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CCurran Kelleher
Last edited Jan 12, 2026
Created on Jan 10, 2026

This interactive 3D globe visualizes worldwide submarine cable networks, with cables rendered as glowing cyan paths and city labels sized by population on a dark, space-like background. Built with D3.js, it uses `geoOrthographic` projection and `geoPath` to draw landmasses and cables, while `drag()` and `zoom()` enable rotation and scaling. Label placement uses RBush spatial indexing to avoid overlap, pulling data from a submarine cable API, topojson world atlas data, and a cities CSV.

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Interactive Submarine Cable Map

A beautiful, interactive 3D globe visualization showing worldwide submarine cable networks. Built with D3.js and featuring dark mode aesthetics.

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Features

  • 🌍 Interactive 3D globe with orthographic projection
  • 🔌 Real-time submarine cable network visualization
    • mooth drag-to-rotate and zoom interactions
  • 🌙 Dark mode aesthetic with elegant color scheme

Usage

Drag to rotate the globe, scroll to zoom in/out. Cables are color-coded by their properties.

MIT Licensed

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