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Posted by kewonit 10 hours ago

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D(aeris.edbn.me)
194 points | 41 commentspage 2
whywhywhywhy 7 hours ago|
it's 3D but I can't go first person mode on the planes feels a missed opportunity
rtkwe 8 hours ago||
That's fun. Having helicopters and their entire flight trails would be neat too.
altmanaltman 7 hours ago||
That altitude scale could use something that makes logical sense than the seemingly random colors? Like its super hard to tell it by the color without knowing the index.
amelius 9 hours ago||
Looks flat to me ...
wongarsu 9 hours ago||
Some mountain airports might be quite interesting with 3d terrain

But that's not what this is. Here only the airplanes are in the third dimension. The world map isn't even a globe

kewonit 9 hours ago|||
still working on adding a custom terrain map, so its more realistic to view, while the globe part is just pure skill issue, i tried a few different approaches but wasn't able to code that in
netsharc 7 hours ago|||
My local airport is at 1417ft MSL, so the planes start and land in mid-air.
shakow 9 hours ago||
Use the double-arrow buttons to change the view angle.
speedgoose 9 hours ago||
I think it’s a comment stating that it’s a flat image without depth.

A non flat visualisation is what you could see for example on a 3D screen, augmented reality, or virtual reality.

jessekv 9 hours ago||
Very cool! Have you considered rendering clouds?
NetOpWibby 7 hours ago||
The planes look like swords, made me think Cloud Strife was going outta control with his Smash special.
rustyhancock 5 hours ago||
Utterly beautiful I never appreciated the 3D structure of flights coming in and flying out of airports but it's so cool.

How challenging would it be to create a VR experience to view it?

adolph 6 hours ago||
I wonder how this could be inverted to display the "planes overhead" [0] (so little progress in 15 years) in AR similar to how SkyView [1] displays points of interest in space.

0. https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/article/2011-11-26-siri-wolfra...

1. https://www.terminaleleven.com/skyview/iphone/

bobchadwick 5 hours ago||
I just did this last week, mostly using Claude Code. I live close to a major airport and wanted to be alerted when interesting planes are flying overhead. The PWA Claude Code spit out is exactly what I was hoping for, and adding an AR overlay was really trivial.

It's amazing and in some ways frightening that I had an interesting problem, and within a couple hours I had a fully functional app that completely solved it.

echoangle 5 hours ago||
Flightradar has the AR thing for airplanes, and had it for many years now, I think.
Johnny_Bonk 8 hours ago||
I love this
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