This is really nicely done! High in FPS too :)
Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
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Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#12Hey Callum!
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Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#13That's really cool! I did something similar for my thesis. We used flight information from http://planefinder.net/ as our data set. Unfortunately no WebGL, but you can see an impression in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvrdxLymMv0
More info here: http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/SoftVis/FlightVis
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#14If this was in real time, it would be even cooler!
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#15The polar regions seems a bit stretched out. Is the earth in perspective? Making the flight paths accurate!?
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#16OT but what's up with all the double exclamation marks in the code?
https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/b...
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#17OT but what's up with all the double exclamation marks in the code? https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/b...
Converts a value to a true boolean: if `a` is truthy (is assimilated to `true` in boolean contexts), `!!a` will be `true` rather than the original value. It's equivalent to but much shorter than `Boolean(a)`, and just as readable if you know the idiom.
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#18OT but what's up with all the double exclamation marks in the code? https://github.com/callumprentice/callumprentice.github.io/b...
Double exclamation marks force a true value, as opposed to a truthy one. For example:
SomethingTruthy => TruthyThing
!SomethingTruthy => False
!!SomethingTruthy => TrueRe: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#19This is beautiful, It's amazing to see how humanity goes over every part of the planet. Which flights are those few going over the north pole?? [~30fps/OSX-Chrome]
North Pole flights are North America and mid-Europe to Japan / China / Korea.
Pioneered by Finnair and KLM.
One of the ETOPS certification criteria for modern airliners is demonstrable navigation stability and accuracy over the Pole. Navstar GPS is not so useful there; GLONASS is better but inertial platforms still the best at those latitudes.
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#20Gorgeous but those planes are flying in space thousands of kilometers above the surface :-)
A clock and animating sunlight/rotation of the earth would be fantastic.