‹ BackHN Continuity

Thread

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

407 points · 112 comments · wanick

  1. FlowingRiver · · focus · HN ↗
    Brilliant project and very well done.

    That aside, it is just astounding that even a moderate laptop just plows through this as thought it is nothing.

    I remember doing orbital calculations on a 486DX with about 30 objects at just barely 30fps thanks to the FPU. That was pretty good for me. Without the FPU you would get maybe 2FPS. Now, you can just throw a half million around at 60fps+ in a web browser. Crazy!

Open on Hacker News to reply ↗

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.