New in 1.2.4 · Seaglass Globe
Seaglass Globe™ — the Earth in double precision, all the way down
A precision WGS-84 virtual globe — the Forge suite's optional 3D view, and the surface the agent draws on.
Twenty thousand kilometres to a rooftop in one continuous move, on a WGS-84 ellipsoid whose precision is
held relative to the camera. Real elevation and imagery, real geodesy with the algorithm named beside
every number, your own GeoJSON, KML and shapefiles on a layer stack that is yours, tile services you
name, live feeds, and the suite's GPU compute run from a workflow editor docked under the map — a
hillshade re-computed while you are still holding the slider. When it is running, ForgeMind's visual
answers — contours, profiles, draped rasters, scene entities — are drawn on the globe instead
of only described. Needs a real GPU; Windows x64; opt-in in the Control Center installer.
A number without its method is not a measurement.
Watch the release film — 5:09, and every number on screen is one the render is displaying. →
20 000 km → rooftop
one continuous move — no cut, no dissolve, no swapping one scene for another; the same globe the whole way down
f64 all the way down
precision held relative to the camera, so the ground stops shimmering exactly where a single-precision engine starts to
WGS-84 ellipsoid
a = 6 378 137 m; Vincenty inverse and Karney area, with the algorithm named beside every measurement
