Very cool & pretty, but I feel a little let down. There is a huge leap from the basics of 3d plotting & spheres to the crazy pattern you tease and then show at the end. I understand it as someone who kind of knows this stuff already, but I think its way too big of a leap for someone who doesn't have the background.
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
#22Beautifully done, thank you for sharing. :-)
Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#23> 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.
Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#24Awesome visualizations.
The part that I was expecting to see but didn't: how can you move at a constant speed? For the original purpose of positioning objects along a path, it doesn't matter. But when moving, you can see it's moving much more slowly at the beginning and end (mostly determined by the radius). What if I want it to travel at a constant rate? Or even apply an easing function to the speed?
I'm sure there's some fancy mathematical trick that would just do it. If I were only more comfortable with math... my handwavy sketch would be to compute the speed function by differentiating the formulas to get dx, dy, and dz and passing them through the Pythagorean equation, then reparameterize on a t' variable using the inverse of the speed function? Maybe? I feel like I'm speaking using words I don't understand.
Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#25When 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 demonstrably does not.
Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#26Really love this project, I only have small little UX nitpick:
as lefthanded person it is quite cumbersome to tap right side of screen. Go to solution is to navigate using swiping which is ambidexterous.
Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#27When 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…
I use Firefox (dev edition, v142.0b9) and it works great.
Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#28When 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…
It works for me in Firefox.
Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#29When 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…
Worked fine here on Firefox/Win11.
Re: Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization
#30When 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…
Works great on mobile Safari