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Offline Her3tiK

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Google's new toy
« on: November 17, 2012, 12:44:37 am »
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With that said, this is perhaps the most impressive thing I have seen online to date. Google has taken it's Google Earth concept, and applied it to the known galaxy. What does this mean, you ask? It means, you get to look through motherfucking SPACE at each and every star we have information on. The map is completely 3D, with each star placed in its relative position to Sol/Earth, and can be scaled from a complete view of the Milky Way, down to individual systems. All of this can be rotated in any direction you like for optimal viewing. I seriously don't have words do describe how unbelievably awesome this is. Seriously, check it out:

http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/


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Re: Google's new toy
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2012, 01:34:05 am »
I put that on while playing Carl Sagan's speech. Awesome.
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Re: Google's new toy
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2012, 08:58:29 am »
Fantastic!  Thanks for posting this, Her3tik.
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Re: Google's new toy
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2012, 11:27:55 am »
While it is fantastic in Chrome indeed, the WebGL implementation is horrible. WebGL is not a proprietary technology for Chrome but a standard implemented in a variety of browsers and the devs are screwing something big here. In particular in Firefox only a sector of the sphere is loaded.
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Re: Google's new toy
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2012, 05:42:18 pm »
Holy shite!  Thanks.
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Re: Google's new toy
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2012, 12:15:23 am »
When you're zoomed out, it feels like a big star party. The closer you get to Sol, though, you really start feeling how isolated we are and how much emptiness separates us from our neighbors.

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