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Comment by nhinck3

3 days ago

Opened this up and sat there for a good 20 seconds waiting for something to happen... only to remember it's midnight here.

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dlazaro  3 days ago

Maybe someone smarter than me could add stars to the night sky, so it's not just black.

  • nativeit  3 days ago

    I was just thinking about how to slice up a star map projection, and apply it as an overlay. I don’t do such things often enough to do it quickly, although I can imagine how it could be achieved. I’d imagine someone working in game dev probably could whip up a mechanism for applying coordinates to a star map fairly quickly, but realizing it in pure CSS would probably require exporting all the slices to a folder as SVG squares that are labeled with coordinates, and then using a bit of JS to stitch it all together in the rendered page.

    • mpetroff  3 days ago

      I wrote a simple web-based night sky viewer a while ago [1], which renders the 750 brightest stars from coordinates in a data file (along with the moon). It uses D3.js to do fully client-side SVG-based rendering for interactive use, but it could be simplified to render server side to an SVG file. I think the main complication is that by adding stars, a projection needs to be decided on, and you'd need to consider the aspect ratio of the browser window.

      [1] https://github.com/mpetroff/nightsky