posted: February 02, 2006
Since all of the hard work with creating 3D geometries has already been done in my 3D Tutorial, it didn't take much work to obtain the cartographic data of the 50 states and plug it into the trackball model. Here are some screenshots (click on them for a larger image):
View from above:
See how thick, see how cool:
View from below
Perhaps a little bit of code will follow soon...