What Can You Do Next?
At this point, we've accomplished a great deal and opened the door to even more possibilities. If you're envisioning copying this 3D effect into Flash and animating a revolving globe, or creating a sequence of a dozen globes in various stages of rotation, or thinking about a reusable 3D global map for a variety of illustration projects, you're just beginning to play with the possibilities opened up by your 3D globe with its mapped Platte-Carrée projection.