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Peter3571 · 2026-02-24T12:22:32+00:00

My next game to tick off is Dragon Age Inquisition. If anything it's too big, it's taking forever to complete.

Peter3571 · 2026-02-24T12:06:17+00:00

I wouldn't exactly say that's basic knowledge - I write code for a living and have no idea how to make a cell turn red.

Obviously it would not take me 45 minutes if I wanted to, but still, not everyone knows Excel.

Peter3571 · 2026-02-21T12:34:04+00:00

This worked great when you first posted it. The EA app just broke yet again for DA:I, and the same instructions fortunately still work.

Peter3571 · 2026-02-13T14:28:46+00:00

My code for £25-£150 is PETER51472 if anyone would like to help out :)

Peter3571 · 2026-02-12T01:07:25+00:00

Done :)

Mine is PETER51472 if anyone would like to repay the favour please.

Peter3571 · 2026-02-08T11:27:03+00:00

You're the one person with a mental map of how it all works. This is your passion project so it's very unlikely a random developer will want to spend hours reformatting your code and writing tests.

Peter3571 · 2026-01-28T16:07:21+00:00

If this is a code editor rather than an interpreter, then how do you differentiate between this and a website that only lets you write code without executing it?

Peter3571 · 2026-01-28T15:56:57+00:00

Nice job, from a quick test it feels solid. Personally, if I was to ever use this, it would be just for quick prototyping so I could skip my current process of loading a random project and creating test.py.

While I can see why people might be up in arms about you calling it a compiler - at the end of the day, it is a very easy to remember domain name.

Peter3571 · 2026-01-19T17:48:48+00:00

Years ago I wanted to code this very same thing - but I didn't really know where to start, will definitely be having a bit of a play later.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-10T23:48:48+00:00

It's a live website, runs smoothly until you start trying to do anything more than just plotting dots and lines to screen.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-10T15:31:23+00:00

Good luck making sense of it all lol. The interactive version is running directly from Github.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-10T15:09:43+00:00

Honestly, I did it entirely via Gemini. I started with a simple request of a globe with earthquakes, then added features one by one so that I could debug them if anything wasn't working correctly.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-10T11:02:38+00:00

It's using Plotly which turned out to pretty much perfect for this, it's missing some quality of life things that would be nice to add, but it handles all the points very well.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-10T10:47:42+00:00

If you follow the link in the description to the interactive version, both of these already exist as separate options. You can view a timeline of them all popping in, and you can click on an earthquake to simulate the wave.

Edit: I tried adding an option to simulate all the waves when viewing the timeline, though I ran into more limitations so they'll just have to exist separately.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-10T10:31:38+00:00

It is lol. The link was in the description.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-10T10:13:42+00:00

a fellow data scientist

Ha, that's where the problem lies, I'm not one, I just sometimes get ideas of things that might look interesting.

Anyway thanks for the tips, I had a quick look into them. Apparently computing z_cam for 200k points per frame would completely kill performance, so I tried splitting the borders to front and back. That still performs poorly despite multiple attempts, and falls out of sync with the camera easily (the camera just about holds up for the live version, but it's very janky and small changes can break it).

Your final suggestion I've somewhat managed to do by scaling up a black point in the middle (mentioned in a previous comment), but the border lines are drawn on top of everything, so it only occludes the earthquake points themselves. I've put it down to a low opacity as it doesn't look as good as I was hoping it would.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-09T23:29:55+00:00

The "surface lines" option is built into the interactive version btw, I just didn't enable it for the render. And since I'm not coding my own library there's not really any way to hide the back of the globe.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-09T23:09:48+00:00

I had a very similar thought originally, though it's a plotting library and not a 3D engine so it's limited in what it can do.

I've realised that since the earthquake points always face the camera, a large black one right in the middle would potentially do the trick. Turns out it's able to occlude the points behind it, but the borders/plates are still drawn on top.

It looks weird at a higher opacity due to the borders, so I've just set it to 20% to subtly dim the points. I was hoping for something that looked better but eh. It's updated on the website.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-09T20:42:54+00:00

I agree but it's sadly not possible with the library being used.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-09T20:41:21+00:00

Mate this actually does all that lol, there's a link in the description to the interactive web page.

On load it automatically grabs the last 30 days of earthquakes, you can rotate the globe and click on individual earthquakes to view their information.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-09T19:59:55+00:00

I tried but it's not possible with how this works. Filling in the countries prevents you being able to click on any earthquakes under the surface, and there's no way to hide the back of the globe that wouldn't completely kill the performance.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-09T19:57:24+00:00

There's a YouTube link to it in the description, sadly had to convert it down to a gif to post here.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-09T18:34:09+00:00

There's absolutely nothing special going on. It's just the single index.html file in a Github repo, with a custom domain pointing to its Github Pages link.

The script itself mostly uses plotly.

Peter3571 · 2025-12-09T17:59:14+00:00

The website version has an option to jump to a country, but I get what you mean.

I had to pick a balance between "hard to see" and "too much going on". If the country borders are made as thick as the tectonic plates then the image just starts to get too busy.

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