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Google+ Activity on WebGL Rendered Globe = Beautiful
- drKarl 15y agoInterestingly, Paris is where G+ is more used!
- jonknee 15y agoIt's just a map of people who have added themselves, it has little if nothing to do with the actual distribution of G+ users. The project was created by three people in Paris which explains why it's the leader.
- melling 15y agoLooks like there are only a few thousand people. If HN'ers add themselves, we'll probably skew it. In fact, it might become of a HN Globe.
- yellowbkpk 15y agoThis is based off of the dat.globe, a project from Google's Data Vis people: http://code.google.com/p/webgl-globe/ http://code.google.com/p/webgl-globe/
- zobzu 15y agothis is actually like https://mozillademos.org/demos/globetweeter/demo.html https://mozillademos.org/demos/globetweeter/demo.html which has been released a few month ago
- ashamedlion 15y agoThat's not quite as polished and visually stunning, though.
- mladenkovacevic 15y agomaybe it doesn't look as visually impressive, but actually in that twitter globe all the country borders are vector mapped.. whereas the google+ one is just a bitmap map of the world. Either way I'm liking that there are more of these WebGL 3D apps popping up.
- Raphael 15y agoI see the globe, but I don't see how it's visually showing the number of tweets.
- icarus_drowning 15y agoWell, this completely crashed my MacBook Pro. Although to be fair, I think it has to do with the fairly unreliable graphics card/drivers than anything else.
- artursapek 15y agoRuns beautifully on mine. How old is yours?
- icarus_drowning 15y agoLate 2008. Soon to be replaced, and a bit behind on the OS too. I've had no end of problems with the graphics card and graphics card drivers on this model-- both times I've brought it in to be serviced the Apple techs have simply nodded and had the machine sent in for a new logic board without even testing. I guess NVida produced a terrible batch of GPU's that Apple used on these models.
- libria 15y agoIt would be interesting to also see activity per capita.
- edswangren 15y agoWouldn't load on my MacBook Pro under in Chrome.
- mcantelon 15y agoWeird. Works great on my (moderately old) MacBook with Chrome.
- 5hoom 15y agoJust out of curiosity, what kind of video card is your MacBook running (integrated or discrete)?
- edswangren 15y agoNo integrated graphics, NVidia 9400M / NVidia 9600M GT
- nknight 15y agoSeems to work fine on my mid-2010 MBP in Chrome, running Snow Leopard. Could do with a little more contrast on the globe, though...
- mnutt 15y agoAnother three.js globe project, pulling from the site's Google Analytics: http://superfad.com/missioncontrol/ http://superfad.com/missioncontrol/
- rkalla 15y agoOk that is stunning but as far as the functionality it seems totally lacking... like they could do so much more with such a beautiful platform.
- bad_user 15y agoCool - worked great in Firefox 8 Beta on my Ubuntu laptop.
- ricw 15y agoNice. By the looks of it Paris is by far the city with the most g+ users..
- lorewarden 15y agoI find these visualizations pretty cool, and I forked the original WebGL globe demo to support real time activity. Check it out at https://github.com/zsolt/globestats https://github.com/zsolt/globestats . It uses node.js + socket.io for the sample server.
- ethank 15y agoThis is beautiful. We did similar stuff using a Flash globe a long while ago. I know that a firm I worked with did this for Bob Dylan's site as well. If animated, it'd make a good lobby visualization somewhere.