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I don't know if I'd say it's the OG way. Both HJKL and numpad predate WASD, I think.
Are you comparing game bindings to vim bindings? Isn't that an apples/oranges thing?
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How many 3D bodies are there? I'm curious because it renders really fast even on a relatively old mobile phone.
If I counted things correctly, 53,836. I wanted to hook into the THREE object and explore the scene, but I wasn't able to figure out how to bring it back into scope after it's been optimized out of the js context, so instead I searched through the bundle to find where it unpacks the data and did that manually.
The power of computers comes at least partly from the fact that for many practical problems, they let you effectively pretend that resource constraints don’t exist at all.
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Would dead-reckoning work or using some galactic sextant?
Maybe? Ultima (Proxima Book 2) by Stephen Baxter: “Oh, come on. This is just great. An imperial Roman starship! . . . We know they lack sophisticated electronics, computers. I wonder how the hell they navigate that thing.” “The drive isn’t always on,” said Titus. Stef realized that a more precise translation of his words might have been, *The vulcans do not always vomit fire.* “Every month they shut it down, and turn…
Just FYI the sizes of the planets, stars, and their orbits are not to scale at all. To get an idea of how empty space is, there are 63,360 inches in a mile, and 63,239 astronomical units in a light-year. So if you scaled everything down such that Earth was 1 inch from the Sun, Neptune would be 30 inches away and Alpha Centauri would be 4 miles away. If you were using a 4k display and had the Sun and Alpha Centauri vi…
FYI we have a up to scale model of the solar system in Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System Come visit!
I so fondly remember him, as he was one of those people being a massive inspiration to my life.
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetenweg
Edit: Added scale.
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Biggest thing they all still get wrong for reasons of drama is showing humans wrestling with controls and flying like a fighter pilot. Real spaceships do not and will not have humans in the control loop except to specify a destination or target.
That’s actually how the cons work in Star Trek (and many other SciFi shows too). What officers do at the con once the ship is in motion is monitor ships systems and check for any external changes to the environment (such as other ships coming in for interception).
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Biggest thing they all still get wrong for reasons of drama is showing humans wrestling with controls and flying like a fighter pilot. Real spaceships do not and will not have humans in the control loop except to specify a destination or target.
That's how The Expanse generally worked, except when they needed to do things outside of normal circumstances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c9W-icdTmg&list=PL66J-Gd5vt...
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That's how The Expanse generally worked, except when they needed to do things outside of normal circumstances.
I seem to remember there was a scene where a human piloted Rocinante through a space station, using what looks like joystick controls and a large viewscreen in front of him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c9W-icdTmg&list=PL66J-Gd5vt...