Firefly: A browser-based interactive 3D data visualization tool for large data

Online demo (WebGL):

https://www.alexbgurvi.ch/Firefly/website/_site/index.html

So the site looks a little overloaded, but it's amazing when you get the data downloaded. If you have a very fast gfx card do try the FIRE galaxies viz.

The Gaia data viz is also impressive. I've been waiting to work with this data for awhile.. this will make it much easier. Thanks to the authors!

Gaia data is from this satellite.. catalog of local stars in the milkyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_%28spacecraft%29

Very nice!

A small nity-picky: From academic point of view if I was a reviewer I would point out that the Potree project is prior art in rendering points in browser, considering Octree based spatial distribution of points for rendering of arbitrarily large data sets.

Potree is designed mainly for pointclouds of terran objects while this is obvioulsy intended for astronomic datasets so the domain is a bit different.

https://github.com/potree/potree

https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2016/SCHUE...

here is an interactive 3D visualization of tested cannabis strains that a couple of past coworkers came up with

https://connect.confidentcannabis.com/