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coolspot
I love how it is optimized for phone. Do vehicles ever turn? I was watching a truck for couple minutes and it was going and going straight, never turning.
tmilard
I am also impressed it runs very smoothly on my two years old mid range phone.

I imagine it has to do with the fact we never see 50 houses at the same time.

dvasdekis
Is it possible to see the source code? I'd love to learn some of these techniques.
1_player
Please set user-select: none, somehow the whole canvas got highlighted on my iPhone and I couldn't deselect it.

Other than that, it runs pretty smooth.

mgoetzke
Nice. Would feel a little less generated if the repeated tiles where offset by a few grid points as it is only 9 wide
nineteen999
Spatial subdivision or k-d trees perhaps would provide a less repetitive layout.
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chrisbennet
This is awesome! Anything you can tell me/us about how you made it?
bregma
I tried following the ambulances but never found a hospital. Just plenty of show stores and many many pizza joints.
capableweb
Seems to be a realistic rendering of the US.
gbraad
LOL, was wondering why it had such an unnatural grid layout... But this explains it!
chrisseaton
When I was small and played 'Sim City' I used to think it was really artificial and created very unnatural cities, then I visited the US for the first time and realised that no they really do have grid layouts with hundreds and hundreds of cross-roads with lights and really do have 'zones' like that and it's pretty accurate for the US!
uranium
Look for the "H" on the helipad.
Waterluvian
I love it.

Cars never seem to turn. Is that because it becomes far easier to simulate without any turns? I liked the effort not to collide in intersections.

vardump
The cars occasionally "crash", but without consequences: they just smoothly slide through each other.
yardshop
They have a lot of other neat demos on their website, go to the top page. I spent several minutes looking through the WebVR showroom, and playing the Keep Out game. Also the Digital Landscapes and Track musical experience were fun.

https://www.littleworkshop.fr

mcv
Pretty cool. To say it feels alive, well, compared to a city without any traffic, it does. But without pedestrians, and with cars never turning, it doesn't feel very alive yet. Would be cool to expand on this.
mercer
Agreed. No criticism about what this is so far, just excitement about the stuff that could be added. Great work!
schnable
Very cool but needs a road diet!
rottc0dd
Pretty cool.

Disclaimer : Not regarding the demo itself.

It is not working on firefox version 81.0.2. It works fine on chrome though.

motives
Works fine on firefox developer edition (83.0b3), I'm guessing whichever bug there was has since been fixed. Runs very smoothly aswell, props to the devs.
rottc0dd
Yep. It works fine on ff version 82.0/Ubuntu.

Thanks.

joosters
Runs smoothly on Mac/Firefox 82.0
rottc0dd
Yep. It works fine on ff version 82.0/Ubuntu.

Thanks for checking it up.

bozobuttz
Yeah, something amiss with old(er) versions of Firefox. I see a gray screen, but if I click on the (?) help, it will glitch the display... FWIW it works in IE11.
mam2
Nice but would expect pedestrians, random interactions with elements sometimes etc...