PinPonder landing film - A world waiting to be found
2 October 2026

This 28-second silent film combines an original perspective-rendered 3D Earth
animation with camera sweeps through three genuine Panoramax photographs.
The globe surface rotates in three dimensions under changing perspective;
the atmosphere, lighting, stars, raised travel arcs and camera path are an
illustrative promotional animation. The globe is not gameplay evidence.
Photographic scenery is genuine catalogue imagery. No scenery was generated
or retouched. No Google imagery or competitor media was exported into this film.
The film contains no simulated game results or held gameplay screenshots.

EARTH SURFACE AND CLOUD TEXTURES - NASA BLUE MARBLE
NASA / Reto Stockli (Stöckli), NASA Earth Observatory / Goddard Space Flight Center.

Surface: Blue Marble: Next Generation, July 2004 monthly composite,
with topography and bathymetry, 5400 x 2700 pixels.
Source and explanation:
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/blue-marble-next-generation/base-topography-bathymetry/
Source image:
https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/esd/eo/images/bmng/bmng-topography-bathymetry/july/world.topo.bathy.200407.3x5400x2700.jpg

Clouds: Blue Marble cloud composite, 2048 x 1024 pixels.
Source and explanation:
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/the-blue-marble-true-color-global-imagery-at-1km-resolution/
Source image:
https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/57000/57747/cloud_combined_2048.jpg

These historical composites are mapped onto a sphere; they do not show
current weather or a single-date view of Earth. The animation adds lighting,
atmospheric glow, illustrative travel arcs, markers, camera movement and a
cinematic colour treatment. Route heights and motion are artistic, not to scale.
NASA imagery is used under NASA's Images and Media Usage Guidelines:
https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/
NASA does not sponsor or endorse PinPonder. No NASA logos are used.

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOURCES - CC BY-SA 4.0
Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Tokyo - Irvin Chen / Panoramax
Photo ID: 29885e61-a66c-40ba-9bf1-edb0da877b12
Source: https://api.panoramax.xyz/?pic=29885e61-a66c-40ba-9bf1-edb0da877b12

Chamonix - ordinatous / Panoramax
Photo ID: 52e74c56-9f52-4cf3-9ee8-6145e1e8c53a
Source: https://api.panoramax.xyz/?pic=52e74c56-9f52-4cf3-9ee8-6145e1e8c53a

San Francisco - LowestPotential / Panoramax
Photo ID: 8523d36a-d3d2-4dd0-9dc7-87a43d4a2a83
Source: https://api.panoramax.xyz/?pic=8523d36a-d3d2-4dd0-9dc7-87a43d4a2a83

PHOTOGRAPHIC CHANGES
The unchanged original-resolution panorama masters are first horizon-levelled
for this film and projected into flat camera views. The camera pans and changes
its field of view; photographs are resized,
captioned, crossfaded and H.264-compressed for the film. Existing blurs remain.
The camera moves within each photograph; these are not continuous recordings
of moving traffic or a person walking. Source panorama masters are unchanged.

POSTER
The poster is the rendered opening frame of this new 3D animation, converted
to WebP. It uses the NASA surface/cloud sources and original effects above.

SHARING
This combined film, including its photographic adaptations, animation and
editing, is available under CC BY-SA 4.0:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Retain these credits, indicate further changes and share adaptations of the
film under the same licence. The underlying NASA materials retain their
original status. This does not grant trademark rights to the PinPonder or
Park Tech Systems names and marks. Separate application source is not
relicensed by this notice.

PUBLICATION
PinPonder - https://pinponder.com/
By Park Tech Systems - https://parktechsystems.com/