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- dwighttk 6y agonice... seems to work in Safari (Mac) despite being chromeexperiments.com
- sebmellen 6y agoWell Blink [0] is based on Webkit [1], so Chrome and Safari share a fair amount of DNA. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Forking_by_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Forking_by_Google
- esprehn 6y agoBlink and WebKit are not very similar anymore. The fork was 7 years ago and since then Blink has been heavily changed including a whole new layout engine (LayoutNG), a new painting system, a redone compositing system, a prioritizing task scheduler and a bunch of other architectural differences. Chrome has also used a different compositor backend, painting backend, and JS engine compared to WebKit since even before the fork. That demos like this work on Safari is probably more about web standards, web platform tests, and where developers test than engine lineage.
- Liquid_Fire 6y agoIt looks like this demo is at least 7 years old, so it would have had just as much chance of not working on modern Chrome as on Safari.
- ribs 6y agoWorks great on iOS Safari too, on my iPad Pro. Impressive.
- friendlybus 6y agoThe text box overflows beyond the screen on mobile.
- martyvis 6y agoAnd then if you select Desktop mode everything seems to get stretched in one direction as if it isn't correctly getting the aspect ratio
- stanislavb 6y agoOK, this is amazing. A mesmerising experience!
- lokedhs 6y agoIf you found that neat, then give Elite Dangerous a try. Its galaxy map is a bit similar to this, but you can click on any star to zoom into it. It contains a large set of of actual stars, and the rest is filled in using an algorithm that takes real physics into account. Zooming in on the centre of the galaxy really gives you an feel for just how crowded that part of the galaxy is compared to where our solar system is located.
- aphrax 6y agoFunny you mention that - I had a particular urge to play Elite after seeing this!
- lpellis 6y agoReally shows the crazy scale. It puts all the planets on exactly the same plane though, dont think that is quite right.
- jameshe 6y agoAnd they excluded Pluto! Guess it's just a faint memory now :(
- dilyevsky 6y agoAll planets are aligned within a few degrees actually. Pluto’s orbit is angled quite a bit if i recall correctly (which maybe was one of the reason to kick it out?)
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThe main reason is that Pluto is an outlier by size, and then we've discovered many more similarly-sized objects...
- MayeulC 6y agoAlso, pluto hasn't cleared its orbit (yet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood
- eosrei 6y agoReally great! Could use increased sensitivity on the mouse scroll wheel.
- glenneroo 6y agoAgreed. Also too bad mouse wheel scrolling doesn't work at all on (my) Firefox/Win10... then again it's a Chrome experiment so the fact that it works at all is nice.
- echelon 6y agoThe scroll wheel and navigation don't work at all on Firefox. I really hope Chrome doesn't become the new IE. Maybe the DOJ will make Google spin off their browser so the web doesn't become Google's own version of AOL. Ten more years of this crap and Firefox will be dead.
- blinding-streak 6y agoDid you notice the domain name?
- 2fast4you 6y agoIt works fantastic on mobile safari. There’s no reason for it not to work on fire fox
- gkoberger 6y agoSafari and Chrome both come from the same original engine. It's more complicated than that (there's a lot going on under the hood), however Firefox shares no code.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoDoes that excuse it? Last time I checked firefox did support using the scroll wheel on websites.
- BbzzbB 6y agoWorks fine on my Fox.
- pmontra 6y agoI opened it in Firefox Android (my default browser) and it worked. Then I checked with Chrome and it gets an extra rotation axis.
- eitland 6y ago> I really hope Chrome doesn't become the new IE. Too late. Ironically we who fought IE6 are partially responsible for this: if we hadn't done that Chrome wouldn't had a fighting chance and we had all had to deal with whatever Microsoft prescribed insteas ;-) On a more serious note: if we allow the Chrome monoculture to continue I guess it will prevent the next big breakthrough for the web just like IE6 held back the web for years. For those who doubt: Do you really believe Google will allow their developers to waste time on the browser once they own the market alone or do you think they will finally remove ad blocking and then go to maintenance mode? It is now our turn to fight again just like we did against IE6: - relentlessly bug any organization who creates websites or libraries that doesn't work across all modern browsers - keep suggesting regulators look into the massive market position abuse that allowed Chrome to become as dominant as it is - keep poking at Mozilla to remind them fix Firefox (it is still awesome but sadly a shadow of it former self on the extension side) - keep reminding developers that this is about professionalism and also too important to leave to PMs and execs. Finally: remember, when we started the fight against IE6 it was in many ways superior, in some ways more than Chrome today.
- bt3 6y agoI feel like I should have paid for that experience, it was magical!
- systemvoltage 6y agoWhen I am angry, frustrated and disappointed or depressed, I think of the pale blue dot every single time. It helps me put things into perspective. Our little knotted lives and our petty concerns are meaningless and inconsequential in grand scheme of things. Just let it go. Enjoy what little time we have here!
- blinding-streak 6y agoTotally agree. I bought a telescope as a hobby, but really, it also acts as a mental health booster. We are just specks of dust in an infinite galactic soup. I didn't expect this side effect when I bought it!
- dheera 6y agoTelescopes are one thing, but there is an impressive amount of stuff out there in "plain sight" that is invisible because it is too far at the edge of the visible spectrum, or too dim. I've been recently doing a project to photograph a lot of these massive interstellar objects in the perspective of landscapes to show how visually big they are. For example, here's a picture I took of the Rosette Nebula rising over Mt. Shasta. The nebula is visually bigger than a full moon, you just can't see it easily with the naked eye: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCO0CmnnVkA/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CCO0CmnnVkA/
- blinding-streak 6y agoWhat a striking photo. Very impressive and a cool concept.
- gverrilla 6y agonot really inconsequential at all.
- yumraj 6y agoI was visiting Chabot Space Center in Oakland several years ago and saw a large poster on a wall which had thousands and thousands of star-like dots filling the entire sky. Except, they were not stars, they were galaxies. A poster of a small portion of the sky full of thousands and thousands of galaxies, each looking like a dot, as small as a star looks in the night sky, and each of those galaxies has billions of stars... Something snapped in my brain that day and I went on from being somewhat religious/agnostic to a full blown atheist.
- qwertywert_ 6y agoThis almost gave me a panic attack even though i usually like this type of stuff.
- savoyard 6y agoNotes on implementation: https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/100000stars/ https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/100000st...
- shmerl 6y agoFeels broken - it doesn't react on the scroll wheel (Firefox).
- granzymes 6y ago> chromeexperiments.com
- shmerl 6y agoSo? It doesn't mean it shouldn't work anywhere else if implemented properly. It has vibes from the "Best viewed with IE" era.
- blinding-streak 6y agoShould everything be built for the least common denominator browser? Where do we draw the line? And what's special about Firefox.. Should browsers like Opera Mini or others have everything work?
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoIf firefox was missing apis to make features work than its fine. I don't expect webusb or webmidi sites to work on firefox. I do expect that the scroll wheel works though.
- jefftk 6y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24706016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24706016 ; it was built in 2012, before scroll wheel events were standardized.
- shmerl 6y agoBroken scroll wheel detection sounds like a sloppy job, not a problem with finding a common denominator.
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- lanewinfield 6y agoWe made something similar a couple years ago that zoomed out from earth and showed you what you'd be listening to if you tuned into radio waves lightyears from the planet. http://www.lightyear.fm/ http://www.lightyear.fm/ ...It's two years out of date but you get the idea!
- CGamesPlay 6y agoJust add 2 to all of the numbers and call it a day!
- MauranKilom 6y agoThis is just too fitting to not add here: https://xkcd.com/1212/ https://xkcd.com/1212/
- jaaron 6y agoOne of my favorite games, Elite Dangerous, has a fairly to-scale representation of the milky way in it: 400 billion stars. One of my favorite things is to wander around the galaxy in the galaxy-map mode in VR in that game.
- paulcole 6y agoCan’t believe this doesn’t have full Lynx support.
- dmix 6y agoThe fact the universe is largely "flat" always blows my mind in these sorts of wider views. A memorable video on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kwcokUFaqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kwcokUFaqo
- jb1991 6y agoWhat you're you looking at here, in this wider view, is the galaxy, not the universe, FYI.
- xixixao 6y agoThis is awesome, would love to see this with some better take on brightness. If you look at Sagitarius A* when zoomed out it’s super bright but then it disappears when you zoom in at the Sun. That clearly doesn’t add up.
- enriquto 6y agoif you want to zoom out much further try https://celestia.space/ https://celestia.space/ my favorite feature is drawing the lines of the constellations joining the stars in 3D (they look all different from the other side!)
- edshiro 6y agoThis is amazing. Definitely something I will look at to relax when I feel stressed with this startup life. Would also love to see a technical write up about how you implemented this. Great creative work!
- hi41 6y agoUser sayovard put the link above. Thought of letting you know. Good luck with your startup work. https://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/casestudies/100000stars/ https://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/casestudies/100000stars...
- joseluisq 6y agoIt looks like an ancestral duplicate. See https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=chromeexperiments.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=chromeexperiments.com
- tmilard 6y agoWouha ! This visual universe magnifying lens is super fluid on my two years middle range Smartphone. I am amazed.
- neals 6y agoHow are we ever going to navigate that? Is Google maps going to have all the stars aswell? Is it going to have all the roads on all the planets around all the stars?
- nakodari 6y agoI hope devs can add further zoom out so we can see a cluster of galaxies instead of just the milky way and that will be even more mind blowing for people to see.
- Fishysoup 6y agoIs the map accurate a few stars out of the sun? Star concentration seems to be higher near the sun. Or is that just something done for visualization purposes?
- MrXOR 6y agoSweet
- bugmen0t 6y agoDon't let the domain name misdirect you. It works really fine in Firefox ;)
- thomasfl 6y agoAlso a very elegant use of the font Lora. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lora https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lora
- pachico 6y agoI really feel the words of L. Krauss when he says that the universe is romantic, in the deepest sense.
- jiux 6y agoAhh, life.. it is odd, unique, and many other things. It is fair to say one commonality among humans is that the thought of death is a frightening one to many, right? Being rid of existence for the rest of _eternity_ sure can be a powerful thought. For whatever reason, it seems like this is often a one road thought. What I have personally heard much less of (and never once growing up in a religious setting), is this: Is the thought of existing for the rest of _eternity_ not equally frightful?
- catsdanxe 6y agoDeath is comforting. No more responsibility. Just nothing. It's bliss.
- f137 6y agoIt says Voyager is 17 light years away. That's a way off. Idea and visuals are great, but needs some proofreading.
- rsiqueira 6y agoHere is the 140-character JavaScript version of the Galaxy and stars: https://www.dwitter.net/d/2342 https://www.dwitter.net/d/2342 (rotating galaxy) and also https://www.dwitter.net/d/631 https://www.dwitter.net/d/631 (navigating through the stars)
- liminal 6y agoSomeone built our interview question :) Asking candidates how they would build a site similar to this (without necessarily all the bling) has been a great way to understand how they approach architecture problems.
- catacombs 6y agoDo you seriously ask this?
- buescher 6y agoIt's a beautifully rendered visualization. Bravo! Another application in a similar vein is Microsoft's amazing and now-open-source WorldWide Telescope, which also has "guided tours" and will let you drill all the way down to searching professional research on objects of interest. http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
- rasso 6y agoLooking at the title I first thought this was some success story about a project with 100k GitHub stars