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SonarNavigator
Description
SonarNavigator is a Java3D application that imports data files containing IP addresses from Sonar and displays them in 3D using a simple transformation to turn the A.B.C.D standard IPv4 address notation into 3 dimensional coordinates.
You can navigate through the 'IP space' a bit like a flight simulator. If you imagine a 3D lattice structure, the intersections represent possible addresses, which are either occupied by an object if the IP address returns a ping packet, or are blank if there was no response.
Of course, it was inspired by all those cyberpunk novels when Case jacks into the matrix...
Images
Here's a couple of screenshots.
Fig. 1 - BT Internet address space, headlights full on.
Fig. 2 - I was exploring part of the AOL address space when I came across this dense IP address block (dialups?).
To Do
- Improve the control system
- Add the ability to interrogate a node, to get IP address and coordinates
- Make the compiled classes and the source code available for download
- Change the lighting
- Make the nodes look more interesting
- Integrate with Sonar to make the entire internet's IP space explorable in real time.. :)
- Add a server so that you can see other people that are running SonarNavigator, flying past.. >8^>
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20th August 2001
