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When I was a kid, I remember reading that the Earth's smoothness is comparable to a billiards ball. This was always hard for me to intuit, so I built out some v
by shriracha 2y ago
When I was a kid, I remember reading that the Earth's smoothness is comparable to a billiards ball. This was always hard for me to intuit, so I built out some visualizations to try to understand this better!
Built using Three.js and Vue, using data from the Copernicus Digital Elevation Model