21 Comments

1. John says:

   2011/05/16 at 18:51

   Hmmm… well, in a couple months I’ll be moving to the Rocky Mountain area from my current location in the Pacific Northwest of the USA. You should probably make another map at that point in time! :P
   The “international awareness” of SpyParty is pretty awesome!
2. Ezithau says:

   2011/05/16 at 18:55

   I’m in the Iceland blob, and hope I get to do beta
   • checker says:

     2011/05/16 at 19:30

     You definitely will (everybody who signs up will, I need to update the FAQ), and thanks for signing up!
3. Ger says:

   2011/05/16 at 19:26

   Well, it could be worse!
   Had you gone by facebook location data, you’d be getting a hit from Elephant Island!
   • checker says:

     2011/05/16 at 19:31

     All the stone heads on Elephant Island get into the beta for free. Edit: Oh, wait, not Easter Island, oops! :) I wonder what the ping times from Elephant Island are…
   • Ger says:

     2011/05/16 at 19:33

     Easter Island*
   • checker says:

     2011/05/16 at 19:34

     Hah!
   • Ger says:

     2011/05/16 at 19:36

     Only thing Elephant Island is good for is Shackleton’s journey there after they got stranded on antartica!
4. Annie Moose says:

   2011/05/16 at 23:16

   Ooh ooh ooh! I think I see my house!

   I’m from the gigantic mid-to-East US blob.
5. por_kk says:

   2011/05/16 at 23:32

   http://www.online-station.net/news/game/22105 << News From Thailand
   • checker says:

     2011/05/17 at 00:07

     Awesome, thanks for the link!
6. Jared says:

   2011/05/17 at 01:43

   Is it me, or does it seem like it just skips over Oregon completely? lol, WE ARE HERE AND WE WANT TO ENJOY IT CHRIS!
7. Luis Riquelme says:

   2011/05/17 at 03:41

   Nice. Congratulations for all the interest you have generated. I’m really excited to try the game.
   By the way, what software/code did you use to colour the map?
8. Jon says:

   2011/05/17 at 04:14

   Absolutely fabulous! I’m in the northern scandinavia blob ;)

   What did you use to render the map, if you’d care to give a short comment?
   • checker says:

     2011/05/17 at 11:33

     A bunch of totally hacked terrible code I wrote, filled with stuff like this:

         assert((w == 1236) && (h == 1165));
         MercatorAspectRatio = float(w)/float(h);
         EquatorY = float(h-565)/float(h);
         MeridianX = float(618)/float(w);
         LatScale = (float(h-456)/float(h) - EquatorY)/0.549306144335f;   // 30 degrees
         LonScale = 1-MeridianX;
     

     or this:

     vector_2 XYFromLatLon( float lat, float lon )
     {
         float x = MeridianX + LonScale*(lon/180.0);
         lat = RadiansFrom(lat);
         float y = EquatorY + LatScale*log((sin(lat) + 1)/cos(lat));
         // return vector_2(WindowWidth*x,(WindowWidth/MercatorAspectRatio)*y);
         return vector_2(MercatorAspectRatio*x,y);
     }
     

     and this:

         glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,BlobTexId);
         glEnable(GL_BLEND);
         glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
         glBegin(GL_QUADS);
         for(uint i = 0, ni = IPAddresses.size(); i < ni; ++i) {
             uint ip = IPAddresses[i];
             geo_ip_range* range = FindIPRange(ip);
             if(!range) {
                 continue;
             }
             geo_location* loc = FindLocation(range->locid);  assert(loc);
             float r = 0.007f, a = 0.15;
             vector_3 green = RGBtoHSV(vector_3(0.0f,1.0f,0.0f));
             vector_3 blue = RGBtoHSV(vector_3(0.0f,0.0f,1.0f));
             float t = float(i)/float(ni);
             vector_3 c = HSVtoRGB(t*green + (1-t)*blue);
             glColor4f(c.x,c.y,c.z,a);
     
             vector_2 xy = XYFromLatLon(loc->lat,loc->lon) + r*vector_2(genrand_real_cc()-0.5f,genrand_real_cc()-0.5f);
             float z = i*1e-7f;
             glTexCoord2f(0,0); glVertex3fv(make_v3(xy-vector_2(-r,-r),z).el);
             glTexCoord2f(1,0); glVertex3fv(make_v3(xy-vector_2( r,-r),z).el);
             glTexCoord2f(1,1); glVertex3fv(make_v3(xy-vector_2( r, r),z).el);
             glTexCoord2f(0,1); glVertex3fv(make_v3(xy-vector_2(-r, r),z).el);
         }
         glEnd();
     

     Etc. Basically, I downloaded the geolocation csv files and map I mention above, figured out where the important parts of the map were in the image, load it in, render it as a texture, then look up all the IPs and splat them down as a little gaussian alpha blob texture.
   • Jon says:

     2011/05/18 at 10:11

     Ah, I get the gist, thanks :)
9. Soupnazi says:

   2011/05/17 at 17:58

   Whoa, totally cool.

   Gosh, my whole state is covered in blue/green.
10. agentorange says:

    2011/05/18 at 08:17

    I’m the Guam blob. 
11. jordy says:

    2011/05/20 at 16:00

    I wonder who those people are in the middle of no where.
    • Soupnazi says:

      2011/05/22 at 14:20

      That’s my 100 signups. :P

      That’s actually a really good question. I wonder…
12. Chelsea says:

    2011/05/29 at 13:03

    They could be using Tor or another proxy server or something too.