Xplanet

Jul 20, 2023

Draw pictures of the earth textured by an image

Xplanet was inspired by Xearth, which renders an image of the earth into the X root window. Xplanet uses the Imlib library to read user supplied maps of the earth or another planet. Orthographic and Mercator projections can be rendered to the root window or saved to a file. An image that the user can rotate interactively can be popped up in a window using OpenGL or Mesa.



Checkout these related ports:
  • Xworld - Earth as seen from the direction of the sun
  • Xtide - Harmonic tide clock and tide predictor
  • Xphoon - Set the root window to the moon in its current phase
  • Xmoontool - Version of John Walker's classical moontool for X11/Motif
  • Xephem - Interactive astronomical ephemeris program
  • Xeartk - Small demo for tkgeomap
  • Xearth - Set the root window to the image of earth
  • Wmsun - Dockapp that displays the rise and set times of the Sun
  • Wmspaceweather - DockApp that shows the weather at geosynchronous orbit
  • Wmsolar - Dockapp that displays the Solar System viewed from the top
  • Wmmoonclock - Displays the phase of the moon, plus orbital data
  • Wmjupiter - Dockapp that displays information on Jupiter
  • Wmglobe - Neat xearth-like WindowMaker dockapp
  • Weather - Utility to provide current weather conditions and forecasts
  • Wcslib - Library for parsing/generating FITS headers