culling the "wires" in the background about globe

[mmcloughlin]

Thanks for your interest in the project!

I agree this would be a great feature. It's definitely possible but it may be a non-trivial change, I'd have to do some more research to pin this down. A related change that might help the confusion you mention is to more aggressively fade into the background.

At the moment this package simply performs the translation from geographical to cartesian coordinates and delegates to the pinhole library for rendering. So I think it would require a change to the underlying pinhole library.

I think the pinhole lineWidthAtZ function will be a good place to experiment.

https://github.com/tidwall/pinhole/blob/86ba04e3523bd03ebff51eac8dd0865c9dc9305e/pinhole.go#L607

[joeblew99]

That's a great idea !

In the art world it's called the recession if I remember.
All architects are trained to use different pen thickness depending how close to the camera you are.
It really adds a sense of depth and makes it's more intuitive to use stupid humans :)