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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

truePositionfunction

A place in astronomical units from the Earth's centre, at true distance, in Earth radii.

Import it

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

Definition

function truePosition(v: Vec3): Vec3

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
vVec3

The place, in astronomical units.

Returns

Vec3

The same direction, in Earth radii.

Examples

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

console.log(truePosition([0.00257, 0, 0]).map(Math.round));
[ 60, 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.