Meridian Earth
Meridian's Earth-from-orbit scene, cloud deck, self-shadowing, and pointer-orbiting starfield isolated as a full-frame background without revenue UI or text.
Runtime: Scene-only inlined Three.js r155 Earth layer
Meridian Earth variants
- Meridian Earth — Earth
The authored orbit: an 8K day plate read through a cubic B-spline, a cloud deck on its own shell, ice caps, city light, and one scattering integral shared by surface, deck and halo — drifting at a quarter of the rate it was authored at.
- Meridian Earth — Moon
The plates drop out and a jittered crater lattice takes their place — flat-floored basins, terraced rims and central peaks at four scales, ray systems off the youngest, and dark basalt maria carrying a third of the craters the highlands do.
- Meridian Earth — Mars
The same lattice split across the hemispheric dichotomy — old cratered south, resurfaced north — with the Tharsis shields, a four-thousand-kilometre canyon, wind streaks and spiralled polar frost, under a dust column whose scattering vector is the inverse of Earth's.
- Meridian Earth — Saturn
No ground and no halo: a zonal wind profile that drags each belt against the next and curls its edges into festoons and eddies, five octaves of cloud-top filament faded against their own screen footprint, the north polar hexagon, and a ring system of noise-built ringlets and orbital clumps cut by the Cassini, Encke and Keeler gaps — carrying the planet's shadow, laying its own back onto the disc, and holding the B-ring spokes.