A friend of mine has a house set on one of the boundaries, the west half of his roof empties into the Mississippi, the east half into Lake Michigan.
He could call his house "the Watershed".
River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
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Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#52Is the map loading initially ok then suddenly distorting to become unreadable after a second or two for anyone else? I'm on Firefox, with lots of about:config hacking, particularly preventing canvas being used for fingerprinting, so the website maybe can't handle unavailability of certain features.
Same setup, lots of weird glitches.
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#53This is amazing, outstanding project! Interestingly, I got it "stuck" when I clicked somewhere random in California (Pope Valley, apparently): https://i.imgur.com/deOsIt2.png
Is that within The Great Basin[^1]?
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watersheds_of_North_America
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#54Is the map loading initially ok then suddenly distorting to become unreadable after a second or two for anyone else? I'm on Firefox, with lots of about:config hacking, particularly preventing canvas being used for fingerprinting, so the website maybe can't handle unavailability of certain features.
Yes, it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/3ec9zpj.jpg ... I don't have a whole lot of custom about:config settings and I tried to disable no-script and ublock origin but no luck.
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#55Really neat tool. Reminds me of a favorite quote:
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. - A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#56It's pretty nuts to me that a raindrop that falls in Crow Agency, Montana will drain into the Gulf of Mexico!!! :p :) xx
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#57Wow. Place a drop in central Wyoming, watch that one!
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#58Unconsciously I expected that the drop would always end up in larger bodies of water. So I was surprised when it went from a creek to a river and to a lake, and then back to a creek. We're probably missing some groundwater visualization :)
It could have been an endorheic basin, where the next step would be evaporation.
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#59Is the map loading initially ok then suddenly distorting to become unreadable after a second or two for anyone else? I'm on Firefox, with lots of about:config hacking, particularly preventing canvas being used for fingerprinting, so the website maybe can't handle unavailability of certain features.
Yes, it looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/3ec9zpj.jpg ... I don't have a whole lot of custom about:config settings and I tried to disable no-script and ublock origin but no luck.
Allow "extract canvas data". It breaks a lot of graphics visualizations within FF.
Re: River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up
#60Is the map loading initially ok then suddenly distorting to become unreadable after a second or two for anyone else? I'm on Firefox, with lots of about:config hacking, particularly preventing canvas being used for fingerprinting, so the website maybe can't handle unavailability of certain features.
Allow "extract canvas data". It breaks a lot of graphics visualizations within FF.