| BASF World Globe |
As part of BASF AG´s new company profile our client circ corporate experience (Wiesbaden) designed for the first time ever a 360° full globe projection.
Additionally to the view of our earth from an astronaut´s perspective, the globe-projection displayed BASF-related illustrations, a world map with all BASF sites as well as images concerning the topic „man and nature“.
MESO´s multi-purpose toolkit VVVV was used for the calculation of the complex globe-projections and connected the six projectors necessary for the overall projection, one each for north and south pole and four more for the projection along the equator. Because the software runs in real time the globe could be moved in all directions and astounding effects generated.
One feature was the adjustment of day and nighttime another one the projection of cloud covers.
MESO was asked to join the BASF World Globe project as contractor and became part of the project team Forum e3, together with 3deluxe graphics (Wiesbaden), Heinrich Fiedeler Industrial Design (Wiesbaden) and Gahrens & Battermann (Frankfurt/Main).
Global Earth Projection – Facts:
– The globe weighs 27 kg and is 3,80 m in diameter. The model scale is 1:33.333.333 (1cm = 33 km)
– The moon would orbit the globe only 114m away and have a diameter of 1m.
– The sun would be 44,5 km away from the globe with a diameter of 1,3 km, Venus would be 12 km and Mars 23 km away.
– The textures were satellite images from NASA
Visible Earth Images by Reto Stockli, NASA Earth Observatory. Earth’s City Lights Data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGDC. Earth’s City Lights Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC. visibleearth.nasa.go