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WEEK 5

At week 4, I had the zigzag mission put on Google Earth, but without depth. Now this week I had to figure out how to add depth to that line. It was a tricky approach, because I had to eliminate certain points in order to draw the line on Google Earth. As exciting as this may sound, it took me quite some time to figure out what to do, because I could’ve done this in two ways: one way would be to eliminate those points by using SQL and the other way was by using Python to get rid of those points. SQL sounds like the most convenient way to do this, because doing it directly like that, would cause the page to load in lesser time. However, I spent a lot of time trying to do it in SQL and realized that I was getting nowhere, so Python it is! Doing it through Python, gave me around 29,000 points, which is a really good thing, because Google Earth is only limited to using around 65,000 points, for lines that is. Below is a picture with only points under the water.

Notice how well the points depict the Glider’s Movements.
Now below is how everything looks like once it has a line.

And below is a picture that shows how those lines would look under water.

Having completed this, I can now move on to the next step, which would be to put an animation of the glider following that line.