What does the speed setting do? Over what time frame is this showing?
Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
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Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#62This is beautiful! Great job!
I have a minor complaint. When I zoom in, the rate at which the globe is rotated does not seem to scale down adequately -- a few pixels, and what I was trying to zoom in on (e.g., Hawaii) zips off the screen. It feels like my mouse dragging is setting a wheel spinning, and it doesn't stop when I let go.
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#63What does the speed setting do? Over what time frame is this showing?
The travel time between any 2 airports is random and increasing the speed value just makes that random value smaller in general. I liked the way it looked at fast and slow speeds so I figured it was worth adding an option.
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#64This is beautiful! Great job! I have a minor complaint. When I zoom in, the rate at which the globe is rotated does not seem to scale down adequately -- a few pixels, and what I was trying to zoom in on (e.g., Hawaii) zips off the screen. It feels like my mouse dragging is setting a wheel spinning, and it doesn't stop when I let go.
Thanks for the feedback - that's a good point. The sensitivity should reduce the closer you are. I'll add it to the list.
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#65Incredible! I could leave this open and stare at it, if it didn't make my laptop scream like a banshee. My office deals with primarily with airlines, and everyone found this really cool.
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#66Incredible! I could leave this open and stare at it, if it didn't make my laptop scream like a banshee. My office deals with primarily with airlines, and everyone found this really cool.
Put it on a TV screen somewhere with a cheap computer running it, I bet people would love that.
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#67Not working for me on Chrome Version 40.0.2214.111 (64-bit), running on Ubuntu 14.04 (just get Flight Stream and a black background).
Works beautifuly on Firefox on the same machine though!
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#68The first thing I noticed is that there isn't much happening below the equator.
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#69Wow great work callumprentice!
All this stuff is cool:
Re: Airline flights of the world visualized with WebGL
#70This is beautiful! Great job! I have a minor complaint. When I zoom in, the rate at which the globe is rotated does not seem to scale down adequately -- a few pixels, and what I was trying to zoom in on (e.g., Hawaii) zips off the screen. It feels like my mouse dragging is setting a wheel spinning, and it doesn't stop when I let go.
Thanks for the feedback - that's a good point. The sensitivity should reduce the closer you are. I'll add it to the list.
More specifically when the user clicks on a specific point on the planet and moves the mouse cursor you want that point to still be under the cursor when the mouse button is released. You can extend this construct outside the central sphere into a camera control that works across the screen and feels very intuitive at any zoom level.
Google "sgi trackball" for some interesting code to point the way.