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Very neat!

This is similar in concept to the Celestia: https://celestia.space/ Celestia has been around for years so the spaceinbrowser site can't really compare in terms of features. But being able to run in a browser rather than having to download and install a desktop application makes it so much more accessible.

The effort put into performance optimization shows. I'd love to see more planets added.

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I've been wishing for a while for someone to successfully port Celestia to wasm+WebGL; It's a bit beyond my capabilities, but there's nothing keeping it from being possible (the codebase already supports multiple frontends / build targets / graphics backends).

The same here. That was the motivation to start learning WebGL. As I'm a JS developer, R3F was the most comfortable 'WebGL-like thing' to go for me.

So far I'm happy with R3F, but it's even more powerful when you can build your own 3D models (in engines like 'Blender' for instance) and integrate them into the canvas.

Yes! That's the motivation I've too. Bringing all these experience to browser without downloading anything.

More planets, more space stations coming soon. Stay tuned!:)

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