Show HN: A tool for calculating room modes in 2D

Re:Show HN: A tool for calculating room modes in 2D by kabla on Friday February 12, 2016 @09:55AM (#11087561)

Hmm, my testing has been a bit bad... It should take about 5-30 seconds, depending on your machine.

It uses a web worker to do the calculations, so it shouldn't hang until it starts plotting stuff.

What OS + browser are you using? I noticed that it doesn't work on Opera, for example. But on chrome it works decently even on my phone.

Most of the calculations are done client-side, the server-side calculations only take a few seconds.

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Re:Show HN: A tool for calculating room modes in 2D by brudgers on Friday February 12, 2016 @10:10AM (#11087668)

I'm using Chromium. I suspect that it is the response time that makes me perceive the site as not working...even 1 second is a long time for something that appears to be interactive.

The fast response time of the room editor probably sets an expectation. One strategy that may be used to mitigate long response times is to update the screen so that the user sees progress.

Here, though, the calculation makes the page unresponsive to ordinary events like scrolling.

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Re:Show HN: A tool for calculating room modes in 2D by kabla on Friday February 12, 2016 @03:20PM (#11090209)

Thanks for the feedback, good point. That must be plotly plotting the room modes. I don't really know how to make that not jam up the browser... I'll look into it.

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