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Procedural Tron

17 pointsby tripgeolast Friday at 4:14 PM6 commentsview on HN

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tripgeolast Friday at 4:14 PM

The Hunt for Red Octangles is a 3D blimp-reconnaissance game using Three.js that turns real-world locations into 'Grid' type maps from the movie Tron. You can jump to almost any city in the world (Manhattan, Paris, London, or even your own neighborhood) and the game will procedurally generate the 3D buildings and road networks using the Overpass API.

The Tech Stack:

Three.js: For the 3D rendering and searchlight effects.

Overpass API (OSM): For fetching building footprints and road vectors.

Photon API (Komoot): For the geocoding/search functionality.

squirrelyesterday at 10:31 PM

Drone view is so high it's unusable. How about an inside-the-blimp view?

Rural areas are trivially easy. May not be anything to do about that.

how about labelling famous locations like Times Square or the Louvre?

Anomaly is misspelt on home page.

gus_massayesterday at 3:46 PM

Is it possible to make a version with a simplified geonetry? My computer gets too slow rendering the city.

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smcinyesterday at 10:41 PM

How to steer on mobile?

colejhudsontoday at 4:36 AM

Congrats on your release! That said, please stop posting AI slop to Hacker News.

isicjsjcutoday at 3:40 AM

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