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Globe Saver Ron Blanford, TRW Inc. blanford@spf.trw.com What is it? This is a screensaver module for use with Samuel Streeper's BackSpace application. You must already have installed BackSpace.app on your system prior to installing this module. BackSpace.app may be available via anonymous ftp from the archives at cs.orst.edu or nova.cc.purdue.edu, but I haven't been able to find it. What does it look like? GlobeSaver displays an equatorial view of the spinning Earth. The Earth rotates once every 2 seconds. As it rotates, the Earth glides across the screen in straight arcs, bouncing off the screen boundaries. The Earth image has been generated from topographic data, with negative elevations colored in shades of blue and positive elevations in shades of green and brown. The artistic credit goes to John Stevenson of TRW. How does it work? Details are given in the README included in the package.
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