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Allow interrupting auto-rotate to place location
Steps to reproduce:
- Search for a place name to get a pink dot somewhere
- While the globe is rotating to that place, click and drag to try to rotate somewhere else
- Notice the globe gets super jittery and refuses to cooperate.
Also,
- After the auto-rotate is done, rotate somewhere else.
- Change the "years ago" using the arrow keys or the dropdown.
- The globe tries to rotate back the selected place and doesn't allow interrupting it.
It might make sense to have clicking interrupt the auto-rotate to allow the user to go where they want. And/or maybe make the auto-rotate a lot faster. If that's not what you want, then maybe click and drag should be disabled during auto-rotate so it doesn't get super jittery.
Since the place locations almost always change between epochs, the auto rotate makes it hard to get a sense for the movement of the continents over time, especially if you tap the right or left arrow multiple times in a row quickly. Maybe there could be a toggle button to disable "auto-rotate to place location" just like there is to disable the globe rotation.