出版社：National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage
摘要：Digitising old globes always brings the problem of displaying digital 3D objects. Until the recent years special software and/or plugins were required to be installed on the viewer’s computer. Thanks to the emerge of WebGL, and its widespread support in virtually all recent web browsers, nowadays there are several simple ways of publishing digitised globe models on the web. This paper summarizes the traditional and new ways of globe publishing, and introduces two WebGL-based JavaScript libraries and their usage in the field of globe visualisation. The first one, X3DOM enables the embedding of X3D codes to HTML pages, while the second one, Cesium is an open-source virtual globe and map engine
