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NASA World Wind Java SDK 0.3 Released

posted by Satri on Monday October 15, @10:23AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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The Earth is Square informs us NASA World Wind Java SDK 0.3 has been released. This Pat Murris blog entry provides numerous screenshots and an analysis of what's new. The Bull's Rambles blog reminds us this is truly a cross-platform virtual globe and links to the Java webstart app. Amongst the changes from EiS: "# - Memory cache refactoring and optimization # - Reimplementation of Polylines. Polylines on surface. # - Shape and icon dragging # - Math classes re-engineering # - WMS capabilities doc parsing # - Texture cache # - Proxy support # - Anaglyph stereo "

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  by Satri (3) on Monday October 22, @09:31AM (#1877)
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  Interesting, here [earthissquare.com].