Storm Tracks WebGL
Learning and science
data visualization
SHOW HN2012
55points
17comments
#426of 1,677 in 2012
Top 26%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
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3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Looks great and is visually impressive
From 3 comments
Sexy as hell. Great job.
lexandstuff on HNAwesome app. Sorry if I am asking some basic question. I have one observation about storms here, why Equatorial regions seems to have massive storms and that too above equator…
yogrish on HNNice! Can you please share where you got the data etc. for the visualization? More info on how you did this would be great too (if you can..)
roh26it on HN
Good for learning WebGL and three.js
From 2 comments
Very nice. Do people have links to good basic WebGL tutorials? I'd love to be able to draw some shapes and stuff...
borplk on HNhttp://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217 is a good starting point.
yogrish on HN
Requests
Show storm names
From 1 comment
Very nice - would love to be able to see the names of storms though.
elliottcarlson on HN
Zoom to selected storm
From 1 comment
Thank you Elliott - that is one of the things I'm working on. Hover over or pick perhaps. I imagine I'll need to turn off that feature when the number of tracks crosses a pretty…
callumprentice on HN
Questions
Where the data came from and how it was processed
From 1 comment
Nice! Can you please share where you got the data etc. for the visualization? More info on how you did this would be great too (if you can..)
roh26it on HN
How to learn the theory behind three.js code
From 1 comment
I would love to understand more about the concepts of threejs. I went through the source of this example and identified this code as responsible for drawing the texture onto the…
BonoboBoner on HN