I you want to game around in a similar setting, I can recommend Elite Dangerous. It never really shows the scale in this way due to FTL though it has a galaxy map, but it is a game where you can travel for hours (wall-clock time) in a direction and not exhaust the "map".
100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment
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Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment
#32It also works in FF, so I assume it's a browser visualization experiment?
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Especially on realization that this 100k stars is only 0.0001% of the stars in our galaxy. It would take one million of these visualizations to represent the Milky Way.
I was surprised to learn recently that we can only see 5,000 stars from Earth with the naked eye.
Depends on your definition of "star." You can see the Andromeda galaxy with your naked eye (as well as the galactic center.)
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#34How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do.
There's a nice write up on building a model for the scale of universe: https://ciju.in/posts/a-play-with-universe
And another one on visualizing time and big numbers (not as nice:) ): https://rohitshinde.in/blog/visualizing-universe-time-relati...
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#35Distinctively reminds me of playing Elite as a kid.
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#36My first thought was that some VM virtualization repo got 100k stars on GitHub :))
Same here! :)
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was surprised to learn recently that we can only see 5,000 stars from Earth with the naked eye.
Depends on your definition of "star." You can see the Andromeda galaxy with your naked eye (as well as the galactic center.)
True, but IIUC, that's the only object you can see in the sky that is not a part of our galaxy.
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#38Neat! I see it's done using three.js for 3d graphics and tween.js for animation. https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/ https://github.com/tweenjs/tween.js/
How did you check the framework?? I mean is the source code accessible to you?
Hit ctrl-u to view the source and for this at least look at the included javascript.
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#39If you have ever played Elite Dangerous, you will be unimpressed by this.
The stellar forge (which is a system used to generate the roughly 400 billion star systems which are present in the 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy in Elite Dangerous) is actually something incredible: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Stellar_Forge
If you ever played the game and opened the map and zoomed out you know what I mean (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpZZnrwRyME).
Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment
#40How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do. There's a nice write up on building a model for the scale of universe: https://ciju.in/posts/a-play-with-universe And another one on visualizing time and big numbers (not as nice:) ): https://rohitshinde.in/blog/visualizing-universe-time-relati...
> How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do.
It (that knowledge that everything I will ever do is absolutely irrelevant on the grand scale of things) makes me feel more powerful than ever and let's me split the relevant stuff from the irrelevant.
Instead of running after one dopamine rush and living my life at 200km/h I enjoy it more.
It takes a lot of pressure away. Maybe being a stoic helps too :D