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Show HN: Text to 3D simulation on a map (does history pretty well)

https://mused.com/map/
37•lukehollis•5h ago
Simulate anything on a map from a text prompt -- and conduct risk analysis against LiveUA map's global realtime data points from social media and news sources. I trained a GPT-2-size model on historical incident data used to predict things that will go wrong.

As historian Benjamin Breen mentions, the leading language models are good historians, so the application will simulate historical events pretty well also.

I include a Multi-Agent RL Urban Mobility model in progress displayed on the map as small white cubes representing traffic and pedestrians. Around SF, it uses real census data and other sources for semantically meaningful day plans, etc. It will populate where you move the map, albeit a little slowly. This is based on previous work on my GitHub--I hope to connect it to Unreal's city samples project soon.

The simulations are pretty simple so far but will grow in complexity soon.

I won the AGI House World Models Hackathon with this and the MARL model.

Many thanks to Shota Matsuda and Garrett Johnson for the cloud and atmospheric effects libraries on Github at takram-design-engineering/three-geospatial

Glad for feedback, and thanks for trying it out!

Comments

WalterGR•5h ago
The prompt… er, well, prompt doesn’t appear in portrait orientation on iOS 18.
tetris11•4h ago
I like the idea, but it's really glitchy and borderline epilepsy-inducing
meindnoch•4h ago
I don't know what this is supposed to do, but it doesn't seem to work.
mkoryak•4h ago
it seems to work, but i dont know what i should be doing with it or what i am looking at
folli•4h ago
I can't get it to work, but it sounds interesting. Does anyone have a screen recording to share?
stevage•4h ago
Mostly I seem to be looking at some pretty great looking clouds and some (fake?) satellite imagery, but not seeing any people or armies or anything. And then every now and then it sort of glitches out and resets everything.

I'd love to see a video or something of it in action.

...

Oh, it seems to work much better in 2D. Now I see markers and stuff.

lukehollis•2h ago
3d version exhausted quota -- will be back shortly! Video of the 3d version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXS9sNcDLJU
rafram•4h ago
I don't totally understand this, but it has the potential to be very, very cool.

(The satellite imagery doesn't work in Firefox. Just clouds.)

spuz•3h ago
The map imagery doesn't seem to work in Edge either.
dr_dshiv•2h ago
If this was just a post about generated clouds I would have upvoted anyway. They were cool. Love the vision!
lukehollis•2h ago
Sorry, exhausted quota on the 3d tiles from Google Maps Platform -- should have workaround up shortly
conception•4h ago
This is magic. I just did volcano and it simulated lava flow, emergency responders, blast zones. Pretty cool stuff.
lukehollis•1h ago
Thanks!
taneq•3h ago
I asked for a large asteroid impacting the Pacific ocean. Interestingly the resultant tidal wave apparently heads directly to Honolulu, then to Terminal Island, then reverses course and visits Sydney before traveling overland through New South Wales and Queensland, causing some earthquakes in Papua New Guinea, and coming to rest in Tokyo Harbour.

Also I just realised I can talk to the asteroid. It understandably seems a little traumatized.

    me: Hi! What brings you to this particular part of the ocean?
    
    asteroid: *hurtling through the atmosphere at tremendous speed, trailing
        fire* AAARRRRRGGGHHHHH! NOT BY CHOICE! Gravity's got me in its grip! 
        Been floating peacefully through space for millions of years until your 
        planet's pull caught me! CAN'T STOP NOW! *glowing brighter* Ocean impact 
        in approximately 17 seconds! Nothing personal against this particular 
        patch of water! BRACE FOR TSUNAMI! *increasing in brightness and 
        velocity*
https://mused.com/map/sim/2225/asteroid-impact-event
lukehollis•2h ago
This is the best thing that anyone has simulated yet hahah
walthamstow•2h ago
Couldn't help but start humming Queen's Don't Stop Me Now after reading what the asteroid said
patrick4urcloud•3h ago
interesting
solardev•3h ago
I don't understand what it's supposed to do. I see clouds and a prompt entry. I type something in and it just gives me a text response about New York urban tourism...?
caseyy•3h ago
I think it's a 3D visualization of Earth with simulated clouds. You can ask an AI to generate a GIS layer to visualize an event. Then, you can talk to parts of the event in chat.
lukehollis•2h ago
Here's a video -- the 3d map tiles quota was hit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXS9sNcDLJU

Should be back shortly!

thenthenthen•3h ago
The scaling is off on mobile, the prompt box is hidden from view etc.
eluttmann•1h ago
mobile coming soon. focus is desktop
tomaytotomato•3h ago
This might be being unfair, but I asked it to simulate the Battle of Goose Green, during the Falklands war of 1982.

Its just a blank screen - https://mused.com/map/sim/2993/battle-of-goose-green

I am excited to see it working though!

yreg•47m ago
The sim on your link is not blank anymore. I can see a map, some entities and some simple paths they take.
moontear•2h ago
Doesn't work in Chrome (no map), doesn't work in Firefox. This sounds really interesting and I would love a video of it working its magic.
mdrzn•2h ago
Seems very interesting tho. Maybe pre-generate the three "prompts" that you show when I open the page, and load them from cache when I select them? At least I can see how it should work.

edit: in 2d the map loads, in 3d it doesn't load. But when it works in 2d it's VERY COOL!

Here's my example: https://mused.com/map/sim/3129/roman-civil-wars-of-the-1st-c...

mkbehbehani•2h ago
Cool idea, can only use 2D at the moment. Looks like the 3D tile quota is exhausted: "message": "Quota exceeded for quota metric '3D Tiles root requests' and limit '3D Tiles root requests per day' of service 'tile.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:1016378558728'."

https://tile.googleapis.com/v1/3dtiles/root.json?key=AIzaSyB...

lukehollis•2h ago
Asking for a quota increase with support! Will build in bring-your-own-key
mkbehbehani•1h ago
Random thing worth I ran into once, you may have already handled this but sharing just in case:

May want to confirm the map renderer is making its requests using the URL with both the session and API key instead of only the API key. If your API requests are base key only, every refresh client-side might be unexpectedly consuming one of your root quota units, rather than each user getting a session of unlimited tile loads for 3 hours. If you're seeing network traffic in the console from your renderer out to the API without the session token in the query string along with the API token, or if you see the session token is totally different after refreshing, that might be a sign of something wonky causing quota depletion.

Example URL for a tile fetch with both params:

  https://tile.googleapis.com/v1/3dtiles/datasets/CgA/files/UlRPVEYuYnVs.json?session=SESSION_TOKEN&key=YOUR_API_KEY
Examples:

  https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile/create-renderer#requests-and-responses
A quick check would be to see how far apart your google analytics for unique users are vs. your API console usage data. If way less than 10,000 unique users depleted the 10,000 unit quota it may be another indicator of something in token/session setup.
lukehollis•2h ago
Update: sorry google maps 3d tiles aren't displaying!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXS9sNcDLJU

The Google Maps 3d Photorealistic Tiles are returning 429 Error too many requests Looks like will need to build in the ability for people to bring their own Google Maps API key. Fix up shortly

lukehollis•2h ago
Hey defaulting to 2D map temporarily! 3d will work shortly

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