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It would be rad to have some sort of WebGL globe example. Bonus points for:

• Day/Night rendering
• Atmospheric scattering
• Streaming tile rendering

Do you have any links to some WebGL globes that people have implemented? That you can use as a reference point.

Sure, some references:

• http://k9.github.io/globe-viewer/
• http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2013/09/16/how-to-make-the-earth-in-webgl/
• Google maps (zoom out all the way) https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9038107,-100.3486691,23003418m/data=!3m1!1e3
• Cesium http://cesiumjs.org/demos.html

This is a project that can be as easy or as hard as you like. But even something as basic as that threejs globe in regl would go a long way. Also more abstracted globes could be pretty useful, for example drawing countries/boundaries in wireframe.

Also a reference implementation of atmospheric scattering:

• https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lslXDr

Some refs:

• http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_chapter16.html

Another globe by @vorg:

• http://marcinignac.com/projects/nine-point-five/

regl globe: https://substack.neocities.org/earth/7.html

I have a regl globe tutorial finished, just need to wait on some other articles before publishing.

Maybe this could be cleaned up and repurposed for an abstracted example? (Just shows countries and also some simple terrain)

https://jsonkao.github.io/regl-globe-example