/plac3d

A first-person 3D visualizer of r/place

Primary LanguageHaxeGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Plac3d

First-person 3D visualizer of r/place.

Plac3d puts you onto the final canvas of r/place, Reddit's 2017 April Fools' event, as a 3D visualization where you can look and walk around.

With each pixel represented as a column of varying heights, you can explore the placement activity of the canvas. The taller the column, the more times a pixel has been placed there. It is logarithmically scaled for visual effect.

Play

View Plac3d in your web browser at https://chfoo.github.io/plac3d/. You will need a fast computer or mobile device with a fast GPU to avoid slow performance.

Also available on Android on Google Play. Other platforms not yet available.

To look around, click to activate pointer lock or drag the scene. To walk, use the keyboard with the arrow or WASD keys. Touchscreen users can use the on-screen virtual joystick to walk. Click on the minimap to show FPS stats.

Build

To build Plac3d, you will need an environment for Haxe.

Requirements:

  • Haxe 3.4.2
  • OpenFL 4.9.2
  • Away3D 5.0.2
  • Actuate 1.8.7
  • Random 1.4.1

  1. Get Haxe from here. If not using the installer, unzip into a directory. Ensure the binary are in path and run haxelib setup.

  2. Install OpenFL

     haxelib install openfl
 haxelib run openfl setup

  3. For HTML5, there is no other setup needed. For other platforms, see these instructions.

  4. Install the other libraries:

     haxelib install away3d
 haxelib install actuate
 haxelib install random

  5. Build the project:

     openfl test html5 -minify

Issues

Bug reports or problems? Please file an issue on the GitHub issue tracker.