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Tyler Morgan-Wall created a 3D map of the Earth’s submarine fiber optic cable network, visualized in RStats with rayrender.
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The data was visualized by coder Tyler Morgan-Wall using a simple script and GeoJSON—an open source format for visualizing geographic features. The data comes from Submarine Cable Map, a website run by TeleGeography, a geographic data intel company. According to TeleGeography, there are 426 active submarine cables in the world. The cables are mostly the diameter of a garden hose and filled with filaments the width of a human hair.
Read more and check out the code here
New #dataviz! The Earth’s submarine fiber optic cable network, visualized in #RStats with #rayrender.
Rayrender Github:https://t.co/iB5nWhGY7l pic.twitter.com/1FTKM0FPHr
— Tyler Morgan-Wall (@tylermorganwall) September 22, 2021
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