Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful • Hacker News Board

Re: Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful

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Post by lorewarden » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 11:41 AM UTC

I find these visualizations pretty cool, and I forked the original WebGL globe demo to support real time activity. Check it out at https://github.com/zsolt/globestats . It uses node.js + socket.io for the sample server.

Re: Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful

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Post by nknight » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 2:22 PM UTC

edswangren wrote: post #12

Wouldn't load on my MacBook Pro under in Chrome.

Seems to work fine on my mid-2010 MBP in Chrome, running Snow Leopard.

Could do with a little more contrast on the globe, though...

Re: Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful

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Post by ethank » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 9:39 PM UTC

This is beautiful. We did similar stuff using a Flash globe a long while ago. I know that a firm I worked with did this for Bob Dylan's site as well.

If animated, it'd make a good lobby visualization somewhere.

Re: Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful

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Post by icarus_drowning » Fri, Oct 21, 2011, 3:00 AM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #11

icarus_drowning wrote: post #8

Well, this completely crashed my MacBook Pro. Although to be fair, I think it has to do with the fairly unreliable graphics card/drivers than anything else.

Runs beautifully on mine. How old is yours?

Late 2008. Soon to be replaced, and a bit behind on the OS too.

I've had no end of problems with the graphics card and graphics card drivers on this model-- both times I've brought it in to be serviced the Apple techs have simply nodded and had the machine sent in for a new logic board without even testing. I guess NVida produced a terrible batch of GPU's that Apple used on these models.