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3D airplane visualization

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What's the interesting part here? It uses Three.js to display a wireframe model.

It's not even an original model, it's from here: https://github.com/baronwatts/models

As someone that usually picked the tail of the airplane and flew around the world many times, let me tell you one thing... If you don't like turbulences, the back is often a little more sickening than at the wings.

Maybe someone who did the math can confirm or deny... it's just a feeling.

That would be right. The plane will pivot around the center of lift.

I get sick in 10 mins on an airplane. Sitting on the wings helps tremendously. Sat in the tail once, never again. The front is okay as well for me but i can orient myself better on the wings and there is a lot less movement.

Given how detailed the mesh is, I find it surprising that you cannot translate the camera. Unless I'm missing some controls somewhere, I seem to be limited at rotating and zooming about the origin.

I tried click-drag, WSAD and arrow keys. Unfortunate that so much work went into building the mesh, yet the tool provides no method to explore it fully. It's a tease!

>Unfortunate that so much work went into building the mesh

As others have pointed out the mesh is from here: https://github.com/baronwatts/models

It’s of course somwhat useless in fulfilling its putative purpose: apparently, seat-level data isn’t available, making this a somewhat overwrought visualization for the data. And the most visible feature are colored seats, but the color does not communicate anything. You have to click on each button to get a single data point each, shown in easy-to-miss text above the useless model.

Why not invest the time to find an example that is actually useful? There is seatguru(?) that has all sorts of seat-level data available , I believe.

site breaks back button

what do you mean?

responsive in mobile and quite addictive to play in mobile

good job

Very good. Not sure someone said it is just ... may be it is just ... but it is still quite good.

very 90s looks nice

You must have had pretty modern 90s. My 90s looked like this:

https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/58960-giga-cad-plus-...

https://networkchatter.wordpress.com/category/cad/

Not want to involve in argument but it really depend upon where you work. Someone are evaluating autocad in 1985 I believe when we are using cadcam in mainframe. The Ibm has to be upgraded all the times. Well, from building point of view one floor cost More than the whole Ibm mainframe and we are building whole housing estate. Those are still standing and housed 1/2 million people.

But what surprise me not is how giving up or not pursue Priate help autocad due to the key is Human Resources. That is why apple Xcode is so much cf visual studio until lately. That is why open source is nothing about business but mind share.

Bim bim bim. Sigh. As support guy it is not sure how to do it. But it is coming. Welcome come to 21st cen. Can it run under Js and the 24 inch windows surface station. Wonder today.

Translation please.

besides that, it ultimately isn't done with autocad ;)

Oh I literally spent my youth on 3DS4 on DOS, reading the same book, back to back.

Some people have way too much time on their hands. Next time I buy airline tickets, I will have seats in the back though.

I've watched a youtube video about the chances to survive a fall from/or with airplane parts (sorry forgot the channel but it was some physics channel) and the reason seems to be that airplanes tend to break in the middle while the rear of the plane tends to stay in one piece. So you still have some protective shell around you if the plane has a crash that is at least to some degree survivable.

Yeah, I prefer to sit in the last few rows. But my wife, she likes the first few rows, because it's less hassle. So we alternate, depending on who makes reservations.

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