Re:Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
by benlimner on Friday November 28, 2025 @09:41PM
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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.
Re:Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
by ed_mercer on Saturday November 29, 2025 @01:35AM
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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.
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.