Translucent Earth
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PPhilippe Rivière
Last edited Apr 8, 2018
Created on Feb 28, 2018
This example visualizes Earth as a translucent globe, showing both the front and back hemispheres simultaneously. It uses a custom orthographic backprojection to render the far side of the planet’s landmasses through the sphere, creating a see-through effect. The animation continuously rotates the globe via `d3.timer`, while user drag interaction is enabled through `d3.geoInertiaDrag`. Land data comes from the `world-atlas` TopoJSON, drawn on Canvas with `d3.geoPath` and `d3.geoOrthographic` projection, including graticules and sphere outlines.
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