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Very cool. I'm a big fan of Processing, it makes doing simple graphical stuff with programming pretty easy. Just out of curiousity, what platform did you do that on? Did you have to use an external OpenGL library or some other 3D rendering outside of Processing's core?

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I tried to use some of the more advanced OpenGL stuff, but in the end I used the standard P3D canvas (which is part of Processing's core).

I used the "Video" library to make a video out of the animation, and Maxmind's Java library for geolocation. Other than that, it's pure Processing.

>what platform did you do that on?

The video was rendered on a Mac. Is that what you meant?

Yeah, that's exactly what I was wondering. Last time I tried playing with the Processing's video API on Linux there were some problems IIRC. That was a long time ago, so it's probably fixed now.

Anyway, cool visualization!

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