The first image of a shriveling world

Shriveled world unparametrized
The first unparametrized image of the shriveled world. CC-BY A L’Hostis 2016

Using the library Cesium, and with great help from Thomas Leysens and Farouk Abdou, this is the first image (in higher quality here) out of this new project, producing a representation of global time space.

Very excited when I first saw it on my computer screen. This is the first time this image, which I had in mind for years, finally materializes.

Unfortunately it has proven very difficult, for me at least, to control cones geometry. In addition in Cesium it is not possible to draw geometries under the surface of the globe. the problem is that, conceptually, the time-space relief map model, everything occurs under the surface.

An exchange with Cesium developers has indicated an alternative choice: the library three.js, which has less limitations for our purpose.


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