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by ljsocal 362 days ago
Impressive and very cool! You might consider making this into a globe route generator that folks will pay for. See https://anim8map.com/

As an active airline passenger for the past 50 years, I wish I’d kept a log my many hundreds of flights. Some day I’ll sit down and attempt an educated guess.

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Cool website! The idea of rendering it to a video is an interesting one.

I had thought that a challenge trying to turn something like I have built into a business would be that people would be reluctant to pay for (yet another) subscription for something like this that they probably look at infrequently.

Anim8's business model lets you buy credits that you can then use over whatever time works for you. Essentially a use fee rather than a pay regardless of use.
here's what the last three months of retirement travel look like: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0bfsKT8PAv_CxDl4pVRWe9-iQ

Among many cool experiences was taking "Le Shuttle" under the English Channel - it's perhaps the most impressive piece of civil engineering I've seen.