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Chikyu Earth地球

A line-drawn globe of the world's countries that turns at the Earth's own rate, with an optional realistic Earth from space and markers for any place.

Chikyu is the Japanese word 地球 for the Earth. About the name

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Reference · The Sun, Moon and planets: pure parts

placeSunfunction

The Sun, from the Earth's centre: in a compressed view always 44 Earth radii away, in its real direction.

Import it

import { placeSun } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/space";

Definition

function placeSun(mode: ScaleMode, geo: Vec3): Vec3

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
modeScaleMode

The scale.

geoVec3

The Sun's place in astronomical units from the Earth's centre.

Returns

Vec3

Where to draw it, in Earth radii.

Examples

import { placeSun } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/space";

console.log(placeSun("compressed", [1, 0, 0]));
[ 44, 0, 0 ]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth 0.11.0.