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Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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I made a less fancy version of that with Mozilla's A-frame VR in 2017 to check how many items a browser could render on a phone twice every frame ;)

https://github.com/naugtur/aframe-point-component

Didn't do the fancy glows and backgrounds though. This is much better looking.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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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 spent a lot of time in that game exploring the galaxy before I discovered a system that nobody had discovered before. Pretty fun!

The community is great too. There is a group of people dedicated to rescuing players who ran out of fuel in deep space. It's impressive to me just how altruistic people can be.

A shame the company ended console support.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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post #59

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…

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.

Right or wrong, I find it fascinating to watch language evolve like this and it's really apparent most in internet comments. I see so many sentences starting with "I mean" over the last couple of years where I can't remember it being commonplace before.

"For sure" is another sentence starter I've noticed, then there are terms like "on trend" which now seems to mean fashionable or popular.

I'd love to do a ngram analysis of this phenomena (?), or maybe just something simple with elastic search on Reddit comments where you can see how the use of search terms grows and evolves.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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This looks pretty nice! Funny enough it seems to work better on Firefox than Chrome on my computer. I am not sure if that means Firefox is getting nicer or if Chrome is getting worse. I wonder if this is also happening to other users, specially on other OSes (I am using a mac).

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

#78

This looks pretty nice! Funny enough it seems to work better on Firefox than Chrome on my computer. I am not sure if that means Firefox is getting nicer or if Chrome is getting worse. I wonder if this is also happening to other users, specially on other OSes (I am using a mac).

Ditto. Devuan Linux.

Re: 100k Stars Chrome visualization experiment

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post #23

Seems to work fine in Firefox

I think the original point of Chrome Experiments was showing off what the performance of Chrome and cutting edge web platform features unlocked, not showing off things that only work in Chrome. Don’t want to sound like I’m writing an advertisement for Google, but in 2009 it really was genuinely stunning how far ahead Chrome felt. (And how far behind, too, considering it did not have any kind of extensions at that poi…

Some of the early chrome experiments required spoofing UA to run in Firefox.

HTML5Rocks which has a similar purpose used a dubious CSS hack on the book demo that only worked in Chrome.

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