On my MBP scrolling is backwards (swipe up moves closer), and mouse motion controls the camera offset angle. It's easy to write the code this way, but awkward and surprising during use. It's better to pretend that the hand manipulates the model, with a swipe up pushing it away and a swipe right turning the model counterclockwise around the vertical axis of the view.
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#12On my MBP scrolling is backwards (swipe up moves closer), and mouse motion controls the camera offset angle. It's easy to write the code this way, but awkward and surprising during use. It's better to pretend that the hand manipulates the model, with a swipe up pushing it away and a swipe right turning the model counterclockwise around the vertical axis of the view.
Swiping up to move closer feels natural to me. Perhaps it is the other platforms that are wrong?
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#13Eventually crashed Safari on my rMBP, but this seems to be a trend, so possibly Safari's fault (and would explain why WebGL is not enabled by default).
In any case, great visualisation. Would be a perfect use for a 3D monitor.
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#14Was I the only one really hoping for "Reticulating Splines"?
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#15This is incredible, and with all the positional, magnitude, and spectral information publicly available, anyone could do it.
I would really love to see a search box that would allow me to jump to a specific star.
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#16Who made that music? And do they make more from where that came from?
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#17Who made that music? And do they make more from where that came from?
Music by Sam Hulick, whose work you may have heard in the video game, Mass Effect. The track is titled “In a Strange Land” and is used with his permission.
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#18It's like the galaxy map in Frontier Elite II was, in my imagination.
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#19that is very cool. How was the glow crated using CSS3 for the Sun?
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html
Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but it should contain the info for what is being used. I took a quick glance and it looked like it was at minimum using the following 3 svg filters:
‘feGaussianBlur’ ‘feOffset’ ‘feMerge’
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#20WOW, that is amazing. I'm always blown away by stuff like this, where you can actually get a sense of how small we all are and how distant even the closest neighbor stars are.
I just close my eyes for a minute and think (or try to), what would it be like for those people that are finally able to reach, say, Vega (I know it's not the closest). Sure, this is not a big deal in sci-fi, but for reality, it's pretty mind blowing. This is 100% why I seriously want to live for a few hundred years: to have an opportunity to see the first time we actually go to the nearest star.
In the meantime, I guess this will have to suffice.
I also love this image that is not interactive like this, but still mind blowing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earths_Location_in_the_Uni...
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