The git-latest PDL (not yet released as 2.078) has, as a new part of its "3d" demo, a 3D model of the Earth (using PDL's OpenGL support), with shading, and shape information. It also has a bug-fixed version of the 3D graph-evolving code added in the late 1990s, which animates the evolution of a molecule-like graph structure, using a form of publish/subscribe.

Having just looked at https://www.lightningmaps.org/, it uses a websocket to get a live feed of lightning strikes every few seconds, updating a flat Leaflet/OpenStreetMap world map.

It occurs to me that a module that connected a Mojo::WebSocket to such a live feed, could create a live-updating ndarray to display lightning strikes on our shiny new 3D Earth globe, in a decently eye-catching demo module (using PDL's new plugin-based demo system). What would such a module be called? PDL::WebSocket?

In reply to Module name: PDL::WebSocket? by etj

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