dyingkneepad18 minutes ago
Nice website. One problem, though: the animation goes too fast for my reading speed, so I have to click stop. Then when I click on the next thing, I have to click stop again. Very annoying. If I click stop, just make it stay stopped until I click play again (which I won't).
puchatek26 minutes ago
I've read part one of Material World a few weeks ago and the semiconductor bit was really mind-blowing.
washadjeffmad9 minutes ago
I'll be honest, as someone who enjoys industrial food science, I felt a small pang of disappointment when I realized this was about integrated circuits.
kxjwidjwjdj6 minutes ago
Yeah I mean, imagine that… an article about integrated circuits… on hacker news… completely unexpected.
laurentiuradop7 days ago
I created Chip Tycoon as an animated visualization of the semiconductor manufacturing process, inspired by the classic isometric style of RollerCoaster Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon. Rather than reading through a long article, you can watch silicon move through the major manufacturing stages—from wafer fabrication and lithography to packaging and testing—in a miniature factory.
My goal was to make one of the world's most complex manufacturing processes easier to understand by turning it into something that feels alive and enjoyable to watch.
mcphage29 minutes ago
It's neat, but I'm not entirely sure what the animations contribute. What's neat about games like RollerCoaster Tycoon is watching this entire map full of things happening without needing to be controlled, but this doesn't really have that. There's your vehicle moving around, and there's people wandering around, but they're not doing anything. It doesn't feel like a factory of connected components.
chrisjjan hour ago
Nice idea, but ...
> reading stop · press Space to hold it here
... what 'Space'? On phone.