A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

Posted by momentmaker 12 hours ago

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese(jivx.com)

329 points | 65 comments

socalgal2 5 hours ago|

The voice does not sound like a native speaker. I don't mean it sounds like a non-human character, I mean something is subtly off. Timing or something. Is that intentional? Maybe pick a different TTS solution?

ranza 5 hours ago|

i was expecting this lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUTD9r3G8W0 :D

astrange 48 minutes ago||

I opened it and the TTS mispronounced the first sentence on screen. (ie it ignored the furigana and misread the first word)

bentograd 11 hours ago||

This looks very cool, but I find it very hard to read the text against the moving background. The lights in the "windows" of the voxel building do not provide good contrast.

Tor3 10 hours ago||

I don't know why, but that was an extreme load on my computer/browser. The picture changed every ten-fifteen seconds, I don't know if that's intentional or not, but it wasn't something I wanted to watch. The computer fan ran at maximum and it was hard to get enough CPU to close the browser tab.

NaiveBayesian 8 hours ago||

For me it showed 400 fps in the top left corner and my laptop fans spun up immediately as well. Seems to render frames continuously rather than waiting for the screen to refresh. Would probably be much less load when limited to 60 fps.

Rohansi 7 hours ago||

You need to click the "fps" text for it to actually show the FPS value (it'll be green). The 400 you saw was something else.

weakfish 8 hours ago||

If you right click on the page, you can 'open image in new tab' and get an image of the current screen. I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild.

Rohansi 7 hours ago||

> I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild.

What's wild about that? That's exactly what it's doing and what most uses of canvas/WebGL do.

wyrdcurt 5 hours ago||

It's wild if it's running at 400 fps because nobody has a screen that refreshes at 400Hz. Every frame rendered past the screen refresh rate is wasted compute. Easily solved by limiting the frame rate.

hmry 3 hours ago||

It's not running at 400 fps, the UI has the current global listener count next to a button that says "fps". The fps is only shown once you click that button. Weird design, I know.

johngossman 11 hours ago||

Fun. I studied Japanese for two years, let it slide and now every Kanji is like "Hmmm, I've seen that before but..." I can still read kana though, which is nice to know.

iqihs 2 hours ago|

Furigana is a lifesaver

netsharc 7 hours ago||

The evening mode has vibes of Ghost in the Shell's "chase UI", glimpses of which is in this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amKt8ttja1E

LastMuel 11 hours ago||

This site caused my iPhone to start playing music and wouldn’t stop until I rebooted. I’m on the latest security release of iOS. Something off about that.

worrycue 10 hours ago||

Works fine for me on a 17e.

LastMuel 8 hours ago||

I’m on an 11 Pro. The site works fine. The issue is the audio. It somehow continues playing after the page is closed and after the application I’m using is closed. It took a phone reboot to stop playing.

I’m not claiming that there’s malicious activity on the part of the site. I just wonder if there is something anomalous about how it plays audio.

socalgal2 5 hours ago||

It's a bug in WebKit.

iluvcommunism 10 hours ago||

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Lawyer24 9 hours ago||

I am going to reach out to you via email. I like this project and I am building something similar. Maybe we can collaborate or keep in contact.

marginalia_nu 10 hours ago||

Voxel Tokyo has very pleasant vibes.

TacticalCoder 9 hours ago|

Tokyo has very pleasant vibes. It's an amazing city. My brother lives there since 30 years and I've been many times (it's so far that when I go, I go for 3 months).

My daughter loves it and, motivated by having japanese family, she's currently trying to learn japanese.

I think she'll love that site (I'll show it to her as soon as she comes back home).

zelphirkalt 3 hours ago|

Meanwhile I am sitting in an InterCity"Express" train in Germany, which already started 14 minutes late, and somehow managed to drive so slowly, that at every stop another ~2 minutes were lost. Now just standing around at a stop, because of some medical emergency at the next station, and announced a delay of fucking 90 minutes. How long can it take to remove whoever causes the medical emergency from the tracks or wherever they are and continue driving? It is all so nuts here, all so idiotic. The last 10 times or so, that I have been traveling, every fucking time they have stupid issues.

And they don't even manage to have functioning displays inside the trains. Every now and then the displays are turned off. Why am I not allowed to see the up-to-date status?

darkwater 3 hours ago|

Medical emergency might well be somebody committing suicide (or trying to).

zelphirkalt 3 hours ago||

Yep, but then what takes 1h? They must have had that multiple times already. Either get them off the tracks in whatever state they are in, or get them out of the train. I don't find it to be a good reason to punish the collective amount of all train passengers in any train in the vicinity by making everyone an hour late. It seems very unprofessional.

astrange 50 minutes ago|||

The train has probably already hit them and they need to be cleaned off it because you don't want to give your train employees PTSD or you run out of employees.

rustman123 1 hour ago||||

Sounds like you have a solution for the trolley problem but modified so that the many are mildly inconvenienced instead of killed.

smilespray 2 hours ago|||

One day you might be that person who requires medical assistance. Think about that for a bit, considering what you just said.

zelphirkalt 14 minutes ago||

Medical assistance can be received outside of the train, or once medical professionals are on board, while the train moves to the next station at the very least, if it isn't there already.

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