Post: #1

New Google Chrome Experiment



http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tec...29fwb.html

Quote:This latest addition to Google's collection of Chrome Experiments is essentially a 3D map of the 100,000 stars closest to our sun. Using 100,000 Stars you can zoom in and out and around our galaxy, and even spin it around to enjoy it from different angles.

Too bad it doesn't seem to work on iPad, otherwise another cool "come-back-to-my-place-and-check-this-out" tool

Post: #2

Works in FF too. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how they created this using html and javascript.

If you liked that, download Celestia. It's like the browser site, but on steroids:

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Post: #3

Runs like crap on my computer

Post: #4

Not to diminish what google is doing here since it IS really cool. It's just that I think that looking at actual stars, ideally while staying out in the desert, is much better.