When I first opened it, its basically a bunch of static pages that made absolutely no sense. My first question was 'why is this garbage being #1 on HN?' Then I realized that, unlike the early web with banners of "best viewed in Netscape navigator", this was an unstated "best viewed in google chrome". Alas. At least please check and validate if the site works in Firefox, or notify appropriately. Because this demonstra…
Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
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Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#82Does anyone know of any tooling I could use to do some plotting like this in 3D space even a fraction as nice looking as OPs? I'm not a web dev but I am a dev, but would prefer something high enough level that I can focus on the "what" (to plot) rather than the "how".
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#83Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#84https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/08/12/fibonacci-lattice/ If you want a spiral that covers the sphere with evenly spaced samples, consider this approach.
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#85Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#86Interesting to note that the parametric equations of the spiral are linear in spherical coordinates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_coordinate_tran...
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#87> If you like this, please consider following me on Twitter and sharing this with your friends. I do like this and will share with a couple of friends. But I no longer have a Twitter account and will definitely not rejoin. Would you consider adding an RSS or JSON feed to your website? Or make a Mastodon account, those provide RSS feeds by default.
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#88Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#89> If you like this, please consider following me on Twitter and sharing this with your friends. I do like this and will share with a couple of friends. But I no longer have a Twitter account and will definitely not rejoin. Would you consider adding an RSS or JSON feed to your website? Or make a Mastodon account, those provide RSS feeds by default.