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A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by LastMuel »

worrycue wrote: post #8
LastMuel wrote: post #6

This site caused my iPhone to start playing music and wouldn’t stop until I rebooted. I’m on the latest security release of iOS. Something off about that.

Works fine for me on a 17e.

I’m on an 11 Pro. The site works fine. The issue is the audio. It somehow continues playing after the page is closed and after the application I’m using is closed. It took a phone reboot to stop playing.

I’m not claiming that there’s malicious activity on the part of the site. I just wonder if there is something anomalous about how it plays audio.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by NaiveBayesian »

Tor3 wrote: post #10

I don't know why, but that was an extreme load on my computer/browser. The picture changed every ten-fifteen seconds, I don't know if that's intentional or not, but it wasn't something I wanted to watch. The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.

For me it showed 400 fps in the top left corner and my laptop fans spun up immediately as well. Seems to render frames continuously rather than waiting for the screen to refresh. Would probably be much less load when limited to 60 fps.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by Rohansi »

NaiveBayesian wrote: post #23
Tor3 wrote: post #10

I don't know why, but that was an extreme load on my computer/browser. The picture changed every ten-fifteen seconds, I don't know if that's intentional or not, but it wasn't something I wanted to watch. The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.

For me it showed 400 fps in the top left corner and my laptop fans spun up immediately as well. Seems to render frames continuously rather than waiting for the screen to refresh. Would probably be much less load when limited to 60 fps.

You need to click the "fps" text for it to actually show the FPS value (it'll be green). The 400 you saw was something else.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by Rohansi »

weakfish wrote: post #20
Tor3 wrote: post #10

I don't know why, but that was an extreme load on my computer/browser. The picture changed every ten-fifteen seconds, I don't know if that's intentional or not, but it wasn't something I wanted to watch. The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.

If you right click on the page, you can 'open image in new tab' and get an image of the current screen. I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild.

> I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild.

What's wild about that? That's exactly what it's doing and what most uses of canvas/WebGL do.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by mercanlIl »

wormpilled wrote: post #18

Slop

I get the same feeling. There’s a lack of polish and intentionality to it. It’s a cool idea and a nice demo, and there’s certainly a lot of buttons and features.

But it’s been laggy on my device, it’s visually distracting, and the UX doesn’t seem particularly well-suited for practicing Japanese.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by jameshart »

3371 wrote: post #25
Keyframe wrote: post #16

Looks nice, but what's the deal with Mickey Mouse voice? Is it sponsored by Disney or something?

IIRC it's a popular TTS character called ずんだもん.

So.. I know many people can read hiragana, but it is a very annoying habit of people who know a bit of Japanese to post un-transliterated Japanese text on an English language forum. For someone who doesn’t know Japanese your post reads ‘IIRC it’s a popular TTS character called ??NOT?FOR??YOU??’ - it communicates no information.

Writing ‘a popular TTS character called ずんだもん (zundamon)’ takes you very little time and gives readers a little more to work with, and which they can use to Google English language resources on the subject if they are interested.

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