I’ve spent a good deal of time learning how to work with openGL the last couple days. I’ve managed to improve performance pretty dramatically with just a few lines and added parameters. It seems that openGL is severely stunted in processing regarding capabilities, so we’ll see what happens. :/

details and experimentation with curves and color (distance correlative).

During this work more ideas have kind of surfaced so I’m just going to run with it. This was built using the processing core and restlet framework to to access and display the coordinates from the city node data gathered from the dimes REST web service. You are seeing the first 5 or 6 weeks of their db being shown in about a minute. It continues to query the hundreds of thousands of entries over time. This is also my first experience working with multi-threading. It has been an absolute joy and even somewhat epiphanic for the sake of having a truly dedicated animation thread. More to come.