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WebGL procedural city that feels alive and is fun to watch
- coolspot 6y agoI love how it is optimized for phone. Do vehicles ever turn? I was watching a truck for couple minutes and it was going and going straight, never turning.
- tmilard 6y agoI am also impressed it runs very smoothly on my two years old mid range phone. I imagine it has to do with the fact we never see 50 houses at the same time.
- dvasdekis 6y agoIs it possible to see the source code? I'd love to learn some of these techniques.
- 1_player 6y agoPlease set user-select: none, somehow the whole canvas got highlighted on my iPhone and I couldn't deselect it. Other than that, it runs pretty smooth.
- mgoetzke 6y agoNice. Would feel a little less generated if the repeated tiles where offset by a few grid points as it is only 9 wide
- nineteen999 6y agoSpatial subdivision or k-d trees perhaps would provide a less repetitive layout.
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- speps 6y agoAdd people otherwise it's not alive, reminds me of this interesting philosophical video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBBuoD9eL5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBBuoD9eL5k
- sieabahlpark 6y agoNice ad for the studio behind it.
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- chrisbennet 6y agoThis is awesome! Anything you can tell me/us about how you made it?
- bregma 6y agoI tried following the ambulances but never found a hospital. Just plenty of show stores and many many pizza joints.
- capableweb 6y agoSeems to be a realistic rendering of the US.
- gbraad 6y agoLOL, was wondering why it had such an unnatural grid layout... But this explains it!
- frogpelt 6y agoWhat would be a natural grid layout?
- cardiffspaceman 6y agoSort of like central Stockholm [1], where the grid is warped to respect natural barriers? [1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Stockholm%2C%20Sweden#map=17/59.32800/18.06546 https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Stockholm%2C%20Sw...
- chrisseaton 6y agoWhen I was small and played 'Sim City' I used to think it was really artificial and created very unnatural cities, then I visited the US for the first time and realised that no they really do have grid layouts with hundreds and hundreds of cross-roads with lights and really do have 'zones' like that and it's pretty accurate for the US!
- sammorrowdrums 6y agoSalt Lake city literally has an indexed grid around the Mormon Temple - it's kind of amazing. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/plat-of-zion/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/plat-of-zion/
- Waterluvian 6y agoI love it. Cars never seem to turn. Is that because it becomes far easier to simulate without any turns? I liked the effort not to collide in intersections.
- vardump 6y agoThe cars occasionally "crash", but without consequences: they just smoothly slide through each other.
- yardshop 6y agoThey have a lot of other neat demos on their website, go to the top page. I spent several minutes looking through the WebVR showroom, and playing the Keep Out game. Also the Digital Landscapes and Track musical experience were fun. https://www.littleworkshop.fr https://www.littleworkshop.fr
- mcv 6y agoPretty cool. To say it feels alive, well, compared to a city without any traffic, it does. But without pedestrians, and with cars never turning, it doesn't feel very alive yet. Would be cool to expand on this.
- mercer 6y agoAgreed. No criticism about what this is so far, just excitement about the stuff that could be added. Great work!
- bjconlan 6y agoMaybe update the title to include 2017, original HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795204
- schnable 6y agoVery cool but needs a road diet!
- rottc0dd 6y agoPretty cool. Disclaimer : Not regarding the demo itself. It is not working on firefox version 81.0.2. It works fine on chrome though.
- motives 6y agoWorks fine on firefox developer edition (83.0b3), I'm guessing whichever bug there was has since been fixed. Runs very smoothly aswell, props to the devs.
- rottc0dd 6y agoYep. It works fine on ff version 82.0/Ubuntu. Thanks.
- joosters 6y agoRuns smoothly on Mac/Firefox 82.0
- rottc0dd 6y agoYep. It works fine on ff version 82.0/Ubuntu. Thanks for checking it up.
- bozobuttz 6y agoYeah, something amiss with old(er) versions of Firefox. I see a gray screen, but if I click on the (?) help, it will glitch the display... FWIW it works in IE11.
- op03 6y agoMan I wish there were graphing tool to make graphs (eg 3D bar charts/over geo data) to look this cool.
- motives 6y agoIf I understand you correctly it sounds like your looking for something like deck.gl? (https://deck.gl/examples/geojson-layer-polygons/ https://deck.gl/examples/geojson-layer-polygons/)
- mam2 6y agoNice but would expect pedestrians, random interactions with elements sometimes etc...