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3Planesoft
Earth 3D Lite your monitor into a realistic space shuttle window! Our planet looks exactly as it's seen by astronauts. You see the blackness of outer space with sparks of stars on it. You are flying around the Earth, a colorful ball with a veil of atmosphere.
Features:
Features:
- compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- high-quality 3D graphics and effects
- screen saver mode
- multi-monitor support with monitor selection
- removing dock icon
- autostart at login
- doesn't prevent your computer from going to sleep
What's New
Version 1.0.1:
- Visual enhancements.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
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Earth 3D Lite your monitor into a realistic space shuttle window! Our planet looks exactly as it's seen by astronauts. You see the blackness of outer space with sparks of stars on it. You are flying around the Earth, a colorful ball with a veil of atmosphere.
Features:
Features:
- compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- high-quality 3D graphics and effects
- screen saver mode
- multi-monitor support with monitor selection
- removing dock icon
- autostart at login
- doesn't prevent your computer from going to sleep
- explore our planet with Interactive mode
- 62 world sights
- 467 geographic names
- original music track
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Steve Copley reviewed on 13 Nov 2011
This is a really well implemented application. It provides a view of earth smoothly passing by 'below' the viewport of your Mac's display. I can't stop gazing at it.
A couple of little issues...
The earth texture is fairly low resolution, so coastlines, etc. are a bit blurry. (I'd happily pay for a version with higher resolution textures).
The textures are high-mapped (so that mountains, etc. are shown in '3D') but the heights are over-emphasised. The result is the sight of comically huge, pointy mountains passing by. I think this is done to compensate for the low resolution high map. (Once again, for a more detailed height map, and more realistic display of those heights, I'd happily pay)
The paid version offers lots of extra details (famous sights, labels, etc.) but I think the lack of information is what makes this free version all the more charming - just the view of our blue/green planet.
Thanks to the dev. for this.
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This is the awesome reality: www.vimeo.com/32001208
I *really * want to see this with my own eyes! :-(