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Opened this up and sat there for a good 20 seconds waiting for something to happen... only to remember it's midnight here.
by nhinck3 1y ago
Opened this up and sat there for a good 20 seconds waiting for something to happen... only to remember it's midnight here.
- dnlzro 1y agoMaybe someone smarter than me could add stars to the night sky, so it's not just black.
- nativeit 1y agoI was just thinking about how to slice up a star map projection, and apply it as an overlay. I don’t do such things often enough to do it quickly, although I can imagine how it could be achieved. I’d imagine someone working in game dev probably could whip up a mechanism for applying coordinates to a star map fairly quickly, but realizing it in pure CSS would probably require exporting all the slices to a folder as SVG squares that are labeled with coordinates, and then using a bit of JS to stitch it all together in the rendered page.
- mpetroff 1y agoI wrote a simple web-based night sky viewer a while ago [1], which renders the 750 brightest stars from coordinates in a data file (along with the moon). It uses D3.js to do fully client-side SVG-based rendering for interactive use, but it could be simplified to render server side to an SVG file. I think the main complication is that by adding stars, a projection needs to be decided on, and you'd need to consider the aspect ratio of the browser window. [1] https://github.com/mpetroff/nightsky https://github.com/mpetroff/nightsky
- socalgal2 1y agoSuggestion for the author, I don't think there are any outdoor places where the sky is black. I don't know that gray would be any better. Stars? Some night clouds? or maybe even still a gradient? https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=58e7983bf9f21fcd&udm=2&2&q=night+horizon+pictures+dessert&sa=X https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=58e7983bf9f21fcd&udm=2...