Very awesome. FYI Voyager(1,2) should be oriented with the big antenna dish pointed towards Earth.
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#12Wow! I'm utterly speechless.
I love space "browsers" - I lose myself in them, just clicking through all the entities.
Also TIL that there are satellite galaxies, and I've never noticed those on other toys/tools like this. I always though Andromeda was the closest galaxy, but it is FAR away compared to `Sgr dSph` which is within 50kly from the center of the Milky Way.
Re: Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer
#13Why do you block mobile devices? When I selected "desktop site" to bypass that it works fine, although the UI is a bit small.
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#14Why do you block mobile devices? When I selected "desktop site" to bypass that it works fine, although the UI is a bit small.
Yes for now I thought it would be better to not show anything than a poor UI, and also the performance is not great on mobile right now. This is something I would like to improve for sure. Maybe a simplified version with limited UI?
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#159.336 WGPU Error: Not enough memory left.
This is on a 4GB 1650 Super, latest Firefox, Win10. It's an old card, sure, but it can still play most commercial games; I'm not sure why this thing is so hungry. Lots of big volumetric textures, maybe?
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#17It's cool! Recently I built a space explorer-like WebGPU project inspired by Space Engine the game, and your implementation runs smooth with rich visuals, that's far superior to mine.
I do find it sometimes hard to navigate and has some visual glitches, but man it is good. I hope one day it becomes my go-to for space exploring, since Space Engine is Windows only and it does not run on my Mac. And building the space must be a huge amount of work, there's so much that has to go into it.
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#18Very impressive. Love the motion blur on stars as you move around and fascinating to toggle on asteroids to see how busy our solar system really is.
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#19Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!
So cool and impressive. Very well made.
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#20Amazing work! I've been actually working on a solar system / gravity sim for my son who has been getting a lot of enjoyment out of the PhET gravity/orbit sims, that has some overlap with your project. It's up at https://newtonsorchard.app
I haven't put nearly as much time into my project as you've put into yours - Galaxium is really polished and impressive. Well done!