At university my computer graphic professor Hartmut Schirmacher gave us an excercise to implement various effects on a sphere in webgl with shaders based on his given webgl framework. His framework made it fairly easy though. Well here it is:

The features are:

  • Day and night light with smooth transition
  • Day changes based on the month
  • Moving clouds, which alternate in intensity over time
  • Wireframe and equator ring for orientation purposes
  • Specular lights based on barythmetic map
  • Height based on topyographic map
  • Bump map (work in progress)
  • Rotate with [Left click]
  • Drag with [Shift] + [Left click]
  • Zoom with [Alt] + [Left click]

All textures are taken from NASA’s Blue Marble collection.

This is my solution to cg2 exercersise a03.

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