[sldev] New viewer name: Snowglobe

[Mike Monkowski]

Citizen Kane?  Was he in Snow Crash? :-)
> There is something new: A globe about the size of a grapefruit, a perfectly detailed rendition of Planet Earth, hanging in space at arm's length in front of his eyes. Hiro has heard about this but never seen it. It is a piece of CIC software called, simply, Earth. It is the user interface that CIC uses to keep track of every bit of spatial information that it owns - all the maps, weather data, architectural plans, and satellite surveillance stuff.

Mike

Philip Rosedale wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> So 'Snowglobe' is the new name we picked for the new viewer we've all 
> been working on.  Seemed clever (just think of the Citizen Kane 
> references), fun, referential to virtual worlds generally, and something 
> that could be effectively mutated for different projects (what you put 
> 'inside' the snowglobe).  We've registered it and gotten some domains 
> (snowglobeproject.org, etc).   Next step for us/LL is to come up with 
> some art, and flesh out some usage guidelines.