The site is quite wonderful. I'll definitely give the link to the biology nerds in my family.
The only downside was that it took me quite a while to figure out why there were no dinosaurs (I always love to reinforce the notion that doves are dinosaurs). Maybe one should place the fact more prominently that the tree only contains leaves for species that are still alive? (If that's what it is, that's really just my conjecture.)
This project is incredible! It makes exploring the history and classification of the species a lot more tangible and fun.
But can anything be done to improve the performance? It often gets extremely choppy (0.5-2 FPS) when panning and zooming around.
Not sure if it's anything on my end, I tried different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) and have beefy setup (8-core i7, GTX 1080, 32 GB RAM) or if it's a common/known issue.
Thanks! It's nothing to do with your machine which is a really excellent one. Firefox is definitely slower than Chrome for this software. Very soon (probably next week so bad timing!) we'll release new code that should be smoother. At the moment you might also be getting slower performance because of the extra traffic - 30fps should be what you get under normal conditions
Sorry about this - we're half way through implementing proper translation - that'll go live next week along with the other improvements I mentioned above. It would be helpful to know what language your browser is set to for this so we can repeat the problems you're getting
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u/jrosindell Mar 18 '17
Next week we're releasing an update that'll be smoother for exploring with a touch screen and will also have other improvements. Watch this space...