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Faithful Recreation of "Dorothy" Software from Twister (1996) [video]

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A software engineer recreated the 'Dorothy' software from the 1996 movie Twister, fulfilling a childhood dream, and shared the project on HN, receiving positive feedback.

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StackBPoppin
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As a child one of my favourite scenes from Twister was the successful deployment of "Dorothy" and the data streaming into the laptop with cool colourful visualisations.

Over 20 years later, as a software engineer I decided to recreate the software to finally fulfil that childhood dream!

Link to the software: https://twister-prop-store.square.site/product/dorothy-1-4b-...

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