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Intergalactic jump inspired by science-fiction movies
- marstall 5y agodamn. it's truly amazing what you can do in a web browser in 2021. ELI5?
- Venkatesh10 5y agoI think probably a looped gif or maybe 3.js?
- sgtnoodle 5y agoYou can click it to move the tunnel, so probably not a gif. :-)
- Nzen 5y agoI'll guess that this simulates moving quickly through the inside of a donut with a bend in it that follows the mouse. That would explain why the pattern repeats and why the far end always curves down.
- banana_giraffe 5y agoThey're using a three.js's tube: https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/geometries/TubeGeometry https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/geometries/TubeGeometry The texture moves, simulating movement, if I understand things correctly, with a forced bend at the end to ensure the tube is never straight. And moving the points of the tube a bit to do the mousemove fly thing.
- jcun4128 5y agoIsn't that an SG1 ship Adult Swim did something like this ex. (plays music) https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/41 https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2018/41
- Forge36 5y agoLooks like the Daedalus.
- banana_giraffe 5y agoGoogle helpfully thinks it's medieval architecture https://imgur.com/a/26aYlbh https://imgur.com/a/26aYlbh
- yreg 5y agoIt's Daedalus[0], so more of an SGA ship. This is the one thing OP got right, the demo looks like the VFX seen in Stargate. The original demo that OP copied labeled the effect "Star Wars" although it looks nothing like Star Wars. [1] [0] - https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Daedalus https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Daedalus [1] - https://tympanus.net/Development/InfiniteTubes/index3.html https://tympanus.net/Development/InfiniteTubes/index3.html
- Venkatesh10 5y agoThat's trippy af and so beautiful
- ThomW 5y agoThis is my attempt at a straight-up Star Wars one: http://lmnopc.com/mf/ http://lmnopc.com/mf/ I made this dumb thing like seven years ago based on a CSS starfield codepen that was floating around: https://codepen.io/noahblon/pen/GKflw https://codepen.io/noahblon/pen/GKflw
- jcun4128 5y agoThat's neat, I always wonder how accurate are the sci fi depictions of galaxies and what not becoming lines.
- pdonis 5y agoI'm not sure what you mean by "accurate", since all of the interstellar drives that appear in sci-fi depictions are inconsistent with our best current understanding of the laws of physics.
- jcun4128 5y agoSo that's a no (not accurate). Looks like you just see a faint glow/ball of light. I saw something about when you travel near speed of light, lengths appear to contract. Maybe the lights becoming lines is just based on long exposure in photography of moving lights.
- pdonis 5y ago> I saw something about when you travel near speed of light, lengths appear to contract "Appear" in this context, though, doesn't mean "what you actually see". What you actually see is an apparent rotation of an object moving by you at relativistic speed. This is called Penrose-Terrell rotation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_rotation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrell_rotation Note also that the effect is only along the direction of relative motion; appearances transverse to the relative motion are unchanged. > Maybe the lights becoming lines is just based on long exposure in photography of moving lights. I think the "lights becoming lines" in sci-fi depictions is based on a Newtonian picture of what things would look like if you were moving through a space filled with stars at a speed much faster than light. Which of course has nothing to do with actual physics as we understand it today.
- zfxfr 5y agoI believe it has been more specifically inspired by this tutorial on this website https://tympanus.net/codrops/2017/05/09/infinite-tubes-with-three-js/ https://tympanus.net/codrops/2017/05/09/infinite-tubes-with-...
- paulintrognon 5y agohaha true! There's even a demo in the tutorial with the exact same effect, as well as others: https://tympanus.net/Development/InfiniteTubes/index3.html https://tympanus.net/Development/InfiniteTubes/index3.html
- mikewarot 5y agoCool, yet motion like that gives me a headache in very short order.
- simonh 5y agoThat's nice, and I don't mean to disparage the work that went into it, but at the end of the day it's just a 2D texture mapped on to a bent pipe. What's I'd love to see is a 3D star projection undergoing this sort of distortion effect. Something more like the classic Star Trek 3D star field but with vaguely realistic geometric distortions you'd see around a wormhole.
- jazzyjackson 5y agosemi-related, I was recently trying out the screensavers on an old Apple IIgs and was dazzled by the warp drive effect - you have stars passing by until you shake the mouse, which prompts the “jump” to hyperspace, an animation that lands you on your desktop. I just love the implication that the system GUI is hyperspace! [4 sec video] https://photos.app.goo.gl/XwnCEgyud7ruBUn77 https://photos.app.goo.gl/XwnCEgyud7ruBUn77
- imvetri 5y agoThis is awesome
- kolla 5y agohttps://wormhole.app/ https://wormhole.app/ Uses this effect also.
- tiepoul 5y agoIt looks quite cool, but it took me by surprise. It's just that it automatically move, which surprised me when I landed on the page.
- onychomys 5y agoI think my favorite part is that the ship backs up a little bit before the jump as if to get a running start.