3D DEM Globe

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This globe was made with a workspace that takes a simple text file containing average elevations of 1 x 1 degree cells: ... 2240E 2220E 2200E 1800E 1400E 1000E 600E 200E 0D -120D -280D -440D -600D -600D -600D ...

where E means elevation, D - depth, L - lake (not shown), and the numbers represent the value of elevation or depth in a cell. The values are ordered horizontally from lower left corner (-180°, -90°) to upper right corner (180°, 90°).

Unfortunately, the number of output features is almost 65,000, and Adobe Reader is not very good at handling such files. I attached a Personal Geodatabase file, so if you have ArcScene you can easily view my results. You also can try writing it to PDF, but you have to be patient - writing to this format takes a long time as well as reading it in Adobe Reader itself.

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