This globe depicts active and planned submarine cable systems.

Technical

Created using data from the Submarine Cable Map and NASA Visible Earth. Visualization made with ParaView and exported to glTF. Thanks to phychai for the formula to convert the data into spherical coordinates.

Project

This model is inspired by Tyler Morgan-Wall’s popular tweet from Fall 2021.

What next?

See more of Tyler’s work with rayrender here!

See more scientific visualizations and maps from the AVL!

Credits

Visualization by David Reagan