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The Virtual Planet Explorer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-get-lost-in-there dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "A European Union program has helped several European partners to develop the Virtual Planet (or V-Planet) software, which will enable its users to browse and interact in three dimensions with any part of our planet, according to IST Results. "Using Vplanet Explorer, anyone can set off on a journey to discover new regions in 3D, rather than staring at a flat map and trying to picture its scenery," says Eric Martin, coordinator of the IST project. The software can also be used for technical simulations and has already been used by both Airbus and Boeing. It should be available this summer for about 10,000 euros (about $12K). Besides other details and references, this overview contains several pictures of simulations using V-Planet."

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  1. Image gallery by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative


    instead of visiting Rolands link farm (with his copy n pasted content)
    try the real gallery he cribbed his images from

    http://www.crs4.it/vic/images/

  2. Worldy Wisdom by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why don't they just add models, and maybe an upgrade, to the FOSS Celestia? It's already got a fanatical userbase, very detailed engine, and lots of models. If the EU is going to spend the people's money on software, the people should get the source code they bought.

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  3. I visited the site by epsalon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    looking for the download link, and then I've seen it's actually proprietary software. Why is /. posting advertisments? How is this better than the new imagery avialable from Google?

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    1. Re:I visited the site by nmpeglit · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What do you mean? Why do you post Intel news then? I am fed up with the bunch of Google articles that pop up at slashdot ten times a day about the same subject. That's an advertisement. And what really bothered you is that this is proprietery software? Of course it is, as it is the 95% of decent software out there. This doesn't mean that the software is crap. You open source nazis...

      Gotta go and roll a smoke, I really got pissed off with this comment.

  4. browse and interact by k4_pacific · · Score: 3, Funny

    What do they mean by interact? Does this mean I can like wlak around in this 3-D world and kick over buildings and stuff? Also, if Boeing and Airbus use this too, what happens when I grab the airplane out of the sky?

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  5. I heard that it was developed in Python. by CyricZ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I read in a newsgroup posting that it was developed using Python and OpenGL on IRIX (not surprising, really), and then ported with ease to the PC. I think that this application really goes to show the versatility of scripting languages like Python, assuming what I read was correct. Such languages are stepping away from the fringes towards mainstream, massive application development.

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  6. NASA's WorldWind by tinrobot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does very similar things... is getting better every release... and it's free.

    http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

  7. Roland the Plogger blows it again by Animats · · Score: 3, Informative
    Another Roland the Plogger story, trying to get traffic for his blog.

    The real link to the project is here.. Roland the Plogger makes you go through two extra levels of blogs to get there. (Does he get traffic kickbacks, or what?) The project ran from 2001 to 2004; it's done.

    And Keyhole does the same thing. For $29.95, not €12,000.