These shots show the real-time terrain tesselator displaying the 86400×43200 Blue Marble Next Generation color map atop the 86400×43200 SRTM 16-bit height map. The height map provides both displacement and normal map, allowing per-pixel illumination. All three source maps are mipmapped and sliced at 512×512, giving 29GB of data across 57903 separate page files. The atmosphere is O'Neil's algorithm.
Looking west across the southwest US to the Pacific Ocean:
Sunset looking southwest across Mongolia to the Taklamakan Desert:
Overlooking the Mediterranean from above the Black Sea;
A few shots of this application running on the 60-panel Varrier at Calit2
