Flight Tracker: 3d Flight Simulation in Webgl with 34,000 Flight Paths
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A user shared a 3D flight simulation project built with WebGL, showcasing 34,000 flight paths, and received positive feedback from the community.
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It might be nice to have the size of your tracked elements scale as you zoom in so you can see more data without having to swap to the "particles", or have the particles swap automatically at a certain zoom level.
It's pretty amazing that this is all happening in threejs now.
I'm the founder of Ayvri.com (acquired) we originally used cesium before building our own 3d world render engine.