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Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by morgante »

roansh wrote: post #34

How 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...

It actually makes me feel incredibly optimistic. Nothing snaps me out of a depressive episode as effectively as contemplating the scale of the universe.

On a cosmic scale, all my problems are miniscule. Everything that we as a species worry about, from petty politics to global warming, is likewise insignificant.

My heart soars at the vast potential of our universe.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by chockchocschoir »

pdpi wrote: post #13

Typo in the title: This is a _visualization_ experiment, not a _virtualization_ experiment. I spent way too long trying to find what was being virtualized.

I mean, the stars in this visualization are not real, they are "virtual" in the sense that they are a digital replication of something real in our computers.

You're right, it's probably a typo. But the typo at least doesn't make the title incorrect, just changes the focus a bit. Most things in our computers are "virtualized".

Edit: seems people are thinking that this comment is trying to "correct" something. It's not. It was a failed attempt to bring humor to a typo that might as well not be incorrect. No need to further try to prove how socially inept I am.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by alg0rith »

chockchocschoir wrote: post #54
pdpi wrote: post #13

Typo in the title: This is a _visualization_ experiment, not a _virtualization_ experiment. I spent way too long trying to find what was being virtualized.

I mean, the stars in this visualization are not real, they are "virtual" in the sense that they are a digital replication of something real in our computers. You're right, it's probably a typo. But the typo at least doesn't make the title incorrect, just changes the focus a bit. Most things in our computers are "virtualized". Edit: seems people are thinking that this comment is trying to "correct" something. It's not…

The site itself says "visualization of 100,000 stars"

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by imtringued »

roansh wrote: post #34

How 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...

Being all powerful and destroying the universe sounds more terrifying.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by chockchocschoir »

alg0rith wrote: post #55
chockchocschoir wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, the stars in this visualization are not real, they are "virtual" in the sense that they are a digital replication of something real in our computers. You're right, it's probably a typo. But the typo at least doesn't make the title incorrect, just changes the focus a bit. Most things in our computers are "virtualized". Edit: seems people are thinking that this comment is trying to "correct" something. It's not…

The site itself says "visualization of 100,000 stars"

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Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by eptcyka »

chockchocschoir wrote: post #54
pdpi wrote: post #13

Typo in the title: This is a _visualization_ experiment, not a _virtualization_ experiment. I spent way too long trying to find what was being virtualized.

I mean, the stars in this visualization are not real, they are "virtual" in the sense that they are a digital replication of something real in our computers. You're right, it's probably a typo. But the typo at least doesn't make the title incorrect, just changes the focus a bit. Most things in our computers are "virtualized". Edit: seems people are thinking that this comment is trying to "correct" something. It's not…

You don't need to prepend the "I mean," to the first sentence of your post, unless you're under the impression that most of your introductions will not be perceived as genuinely yours.

And I don't believe that this kind of obsession with being technically correct will lead to great social outcomes.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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Post by brainwipe »

edg-l wrote: post #39

If 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://ww…

I play ED and this is pretty impressive.

It's built in three.js and comes in at about 3MB running in a browser sandbox.

The world isn't either/or. Both can be impressive.

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