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It's fascinating to me that so much 3D web design work is still done by hand in code, rather than using a visual 3D tool. 3D in web design essentially means simple rotating shapes, e.g., see the Stripe globe or the Panic truck ( https://www.panic.com/transmit/ ). I don't want to diminish what's been accomplished here, this is absolutely bleeding edge, state of the art work. But here's an example of what 3D design mea…
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There is an interesting chicken-and-egg problem in our line of business, in that we have to convince you that we're not just normal-software-company levels of trustworthy and competent, but trustworthy and competent enough for you to put us solidly in the middle of your revenue. Additionally, due to the way our business works, we might have to do that before you even have revenue. So we invest quite a bit in "the lit…
on that note, are you aware that the globe on stripe.com is rotating in the wrong direction?
They mention globekit [1], an insanely cool globe visualization which deserves their own post. Does anyone know the price range for their services? I hate it when companies don't put the price upfront and make potential customers ask for a quote. :-\ [1]: https://globekit.co/
On a tangent, I do feel most GIS systems and applications still use 2d maps instead of a 3d globe, which I think could do with some rethinking. Working with globes could eliminate the whole apparatus of projections, and I guess would simplify a lot of calculations.. but there seems to be much resistance to this idea.
It's fascinating to me that so much 3D web design work is still done by hand in code, rather than using a visual 3D tool. 3D in web design essentially means simple rotating shapes, e.g., see the Stripe globe or the Panic truck ( https://www.panic.com/transmit/ ). I don't want to diminish what's been accomplished here, this is absolutely bleeding edge, state of the art work. But here's an example of what 3D design mea…
Comparing something rendered on the fly with a video is a bit unfair.
On a tangent, I do feel most GIS systems and applications still use 2d maps instead of a 3d globe, which I think could do with some rethinking. Working with globes could eliminate the whole apparatus of projections, and I guess would simplify a lot of calculations.. but there seems to be much resistance to this idea.
It’s still being projected onto a screen though so you’re still using a projection. There are some pretty extreme trade offs you accept when using a orthographic ‘globe’ projection, not least of which is that you can’t see half the planet for any given moment.
The philosophical question here: is a stereopair of 2 near-orthographic (near side general Projections still a projection, or is it only a globe, if it's tactile?
In general I would prefer the CanvasRenderingContext2D way to handle this simple display use case, since it looks cleaner and more predictable across devices on screen and doesn't keep your gpu busy when not animating anything.
These giant companies employ/stockpile vast numbers of elite programmers who they don’t really need. So they build other things. Nice work if you can get it.
On a tangent, I do feel most GIS systems and applications still use 2d maps instead of a 3d globe, which I think could do with some rethinking. Working with globes could eliminate the whole apparatus of projections, and I guess would simplify a lot of calculations.. but there seems to be much resistance to this idea.
In essence:a patchwork of local references frames per plate is prefereable to a single global one, when having to work with measurements over the time of decades. Which happen to also work reasonably well in 2D when projected.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/StephaneP/diary/390290 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20460596
They mention globekit [1], an insanely cool globe visualization which deserves their own post. Does anyone know the price range for their services? I hate it when companies don't put the price upfront and make potential customers ask for a quote. :-\ [1]: https://globekit.co/
Cool, sure, but after several seconds of loading I closed the tab without knowing anything more about the company. I'd say what's on globekit.co would be a bad idea to put on stripe.com, as is.