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- Globe Saver
- Ron Blanford, TRW Inc.
- blanford@spf.trw.com
-
- What is it?
-
- This is a screensaver module for use with Samuel
- Streeper's BackSpace application. You must already
- have installed BackSpace.app on your system prior to
- installing this module. BackSpace.app may be available
- via anonymous ftp from the archives at cs.orst.edu or
- nova.cc.purdue.edu, but I haven't been able to find it.
-
- What does it look like?
-
- GlobeSaver displays an equatorial view of the spinning
- Earth. The Earth rotates once every 2 seconds. As it
- rotates, the Earth glides across the screen in straight
- arcs, bouncing off the screen boundaries.
-
- The Earth image has been generated from topographic
- data, with negative elevations colored in shades of blue
- and positive elevations in shades of green and brown. The
- artistic credit goes to John Stevenson of TRW.
-
- How does it work?
-
- Details are given in the README included in the package.
-