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Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM

Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM

coolwulf

Comments (35)

  • c0nsumer
    When zooming in and it switches to the lighter color tiles, the icons basically become invisible.
  • whywhywhywhy
    Zooming on a mouse wheel on windows is nearly unusable, it goes from whole of europe to town level in one mouse wheel notch.
  • ge96
    Why is there almost no traffic in places like South America (other than Brazil) and Africa? Data set or reality? Not much in China/Russia either.
  • aduffy
    There's something a little off about the projection logic when you drop into the Leaflet view, you'll notice that when you pan around after zooming the planes shift their location.Very cool demo though!
  • concensure
    Did you pay for flight api? Getting comprehensive real time flight data is quite a monetary challenge
  • coolwulf
    For people having problems navigating, you can search flifht number on the left search bar. When click on the flight number, the view will jump over.
  • christophilus
    Makes the divide between the developed and developing world very clear.Edit: can’t be right. I think this is a dataset problem. China and Brazil should have more dots.
  • maxwg
    Impressive. The planes should probably scale up a bit as you zoom though, they become impossible to spot.I'm surprised all the flights in the world can be represented in a <500KB api call
  • ddoolin
    When you zoom in to the street map level, the planes are practically invisible with their color and thin borders. Pretty neat though, that's a lot to load and keep smooth.
  • paulnsorensen
    Wow. I won't give you a feature request :) just appreciation.It really puts into perspective the magnitude of air traffic when you have this visualization.
  • Glubker
    Really cool! Curious to know how you made it render everything so fast with barely any loading.Good work.
  • Levitating
    The wasm file (flight_viz_bg.wasm) was 10.94 MB as reported by firefox.
  • lwansbrough
    Could probably extrapolate positions based on heading and speed, to do some fake "real time" positions.
  • pstomi
    It render extremely fast on my side (firefox, macOS). Which UI stack are you using? Is it egui?
  • amelius
    Can you add pinch zoom?
  • coolwulf
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