Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker

Re:Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker by purplecats on Friday November 28, 2025 @05:26PM (#46083335)

this is really cool! can you make it interpolate and smoothly animate based on velocity and trajectory?

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Re:Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker by benlimner on Friday November 28, 2025 @09:41PM (#46084800)

Could, yes.

I’ve tried it in 2d to pretty good success. It’s a bit low on my list of items to add, partially because I have a hunch that calculating and projecting thousands of vectors is going to cost more compute than simply accepting coordinates and drawing lines.

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Re:Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker by ed_mercer on Saturday November 29, 2025 @01:35AM (#46085578)

Modern CPUs do billions of floating point operations per second. Calculating and projecting thousands of vectors is pocket change. On a GPU it’s even more laughably small.

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