I am looking for an example that renders an interactive earth similar to the one in the Smule products.
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Related non ES: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9511499/seam-issue-when-mapping-a-texture-to-a-sphere-in-opengl || http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17488259/opengl-mapping-texture-to-sphere The name of this operation appears to be "UV mapping": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_mapping – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Apr 12 '16 at 13:45
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Someone just pointed me to this question. I have one!
It's called WhirlyGlobe and it's built specifically for this purpose. Runs on ios, uses a combo of Objective-C and C++ and is very Cocoa Touch friendly. Uses delegates for camera motion, multithreaded, all that good stuff.
Oh, and it's freely available under the Apache2 license.
Details can be found here: http://mousebird.github.io/WhirlyGlobe/
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If you prefixed http://, it would make that URL clickable like this: http://mousebirdconsulting.com/whirlyglobe :p – P i Nov 14 '11 at 10:54
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the link is dead :( For anyone who is looking for it: https://github.com/mousebird/WhirlyGlobe/ – vir us Feb 18 '15 at 21:43
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I can't offer any samples, but Dragon Forged Software sells a prepackaged OpenGL ES Globe for the iPhone. http://dragonforged.com/consult.shtml
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A company name Clever Coding offers a opengl implementation of a 3D globe for sale at http://www.clevercoding.com/iPhone3Dglobe.php
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