3D Thematic Mapping

Author: Gregory Aitken
University: Cal Poly SLO
Term: Spring 2018
Course: Intro to Computer Graphics
Instructor: Christian Eckhardt

Project Description

3D Thematic Mapping is a program for visualizing geospatial data on a globe. Cylindrical bars normal to the center of each country are scaled and colored based on the value of some variable such as population.

Controls:

  • h - move left/west
  • j - move down/south
  • k - move up/north
  • l - move right/east
  • i - zoom in
  • o - zoom out

Population 2016

Details

Data is from the World Development Indicators provided by the World Bank. As is the program displays population data from 2016.

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