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Re: Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

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I don’t know if it is interesting for this project, but I recently set up a Grafana dashboard for the telemetry feed from the ISS:

https://github.com/Radiergummi/iss-metrics

There’s also data on the position and rotation of various parts of the station in this feed. Might make for some interesting options when rendering the station!

Re: Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

#12
post #9

For some reason this causes "A problem repeatedly occurred" on my iPhone 15. Reminding myself to try when I get home.

Same here

I don't suppose either of you have any content blockers installed in Safari? Someone on Reddit has mentioned that disabling content blockers fixed the globe not loading

Re: Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

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post #11

I don’t know if it is interesting for this project, but I recently set up a Grafana dashboard for the telemetry feed from the ISS: https://github.com/Radiergummi/iss-metrics There’s also data on the position and rotation of various parts of the station in this feed. Might make for some interesting options when rendering the station!

Ooh very interesting, thanks! I did have a little model of the ISS in place of the yellow dot originally but I ran into some issues with it. Would be very interesting to get that fixed up and rendering accurately too

Re: Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

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post #14

This is fantastic. Very nice work. Are you using CesiumJS? Minor gripe: Please don't disable right click :(

Thanks! It's not Cesium, no - I'm using Globe.GL [0] with custom shaders for the atmosphere effects and day/night transition

Sorry about right-click. It's not disabled intentionally, it might be something in Globe.GL or three js. I'll see if I can enable it

[0] https://globe.gl/

Re: Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

#16
There are some crazy lightning storms over China in the live video feed at the moment. Very cool.

One thing I would change is to change the yellow dot to an actual image of the ISS. It would also be cool to be able to zoom in a little bit more (and maybe use some higher resolution images of the globe).

Re: Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

#18
Can you think of a way to use your live cloud data as the background shader for https://github.com/sebosp/chartacritty ? I was also hoping to draw the iss progression through the earth, but sometimes people use terminals to actually read and may become confusing... For the rewind functionality you could look into rerun.io, not sure it's compatible with your current libraries but may be fun

Re: Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

#19

This is neat, loading time was very slow for me, though. The Earth didn't appear for 30+ seconds, so most of the page was just a black background.

Thanks, I'll see if I can improve that. The textures are quite hefty so that's probably slowing it down. Are you on a mobile/cellular data connection?

Re: Show HN: Beautiful 3D ISS tracker with live video and near-realtime clouds

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post #16

There are some crazy lightning storms over China in the live video feed at the moment. Very cool. One thing I would change is to change the yellow dot to an actual image of the ISS. It would also be cool to be able to zoom in a little bit more (and maybe use some higher resolution images of the globe).

It did originally have a little model of the ISS actually but I ran into some issues with the model loader - going to try and reinstate that feature
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