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Visualizing 100k Years of Earth in WebGL

technistuff.com
83 points·by agnosis·letztes Jahr·20 comments

Simulating a minimal cell in the browser

technistuff.com
164 points·by agnosis·vor 2 Jahren·20 comments

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agnosis
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Thats an interesting point. I think that if the climate difference is important I would allow the user to toggle between summer and winter. Or choose based on the context if you are showing specific events like wars that were impacted by winter weather. From my research (not professional or scientific) ice sheets didn’t move much between seasons so I wouldn’t include them. When you have very large intervals of 100k years when you go further back there could be several ice ages in between so I don’t think it makes much sense there. In what context do you think that this would be important to consider?
agnosis
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Great point, I thought about it but decided it was too hard to do. But I will take another look and see if I can find some good data sources for it.
agnosis
·letztes Jahr·discuss
Thanks for the feedback! I used log scale because it will be easier to show historical events on the timeline once I implement that. Since much more happened closer to present day
agnosis
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
At the moment it does not. As per the paper[1]:

> We do not simulate any operonal structures for protein-coding genes and transcribe each gene individually. Once transcriptomics data becomes available for Syn3A to determine operonal structures, we can incorporate transcription of operons into this model.

[1] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)01488-4
agnosis
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Have you ever wondered how life’s most basic units, cells, operate? As a programmer and cell biology enthusiast, I embarked on a journey to simulate the simplest cell using TypeScript.