[thesite] map - the FSFE way

Dean Mah dsmah at home.com
Wed Jul 25 14:34:44 CDT 2001


Bruce Heerssen writes:

> mantruc wrote:
> 
> >
> >Dean Mah wrote:
> >
> >>This is just a side project for me.  I don't want it to take away from
> >>the Flash version.  My version doesn't scale very well.  The maps that
> >>it generates are pretty big (500K) depending on the output size.  It
> >>looks a lot better as a background on my desktop.  It's kind of
> >>interesting to watch day break and night fall on evolters.  Might
> >>throw in the option to grab the cloud image overlays that are
> >>generated evry 6 hours.
> >>
> >
> >ok, i thought it was cool, but we still need something more apropriate
> >(sp?)
> >
> 
> +1
> It's *damn* cool. But what is it makes that one inappropriate?

It doesn't scale.  Can't really zoom in and out.  (Not yet at least.)
The output file is too big.  Flash is cool.  ;)

Dean




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