I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D

A simple claim—turning a flat flight map into 3D—just hit the internet, and the comments took off faster than a red‑eye. Fans cheered the colorful altitude view (“it looks fantastic!”), and one early request stole the show: add clouds. Because if we’re going 3D, why not bring the sky drama?

But then the turbulence: one viewer deadpanned, “Looks flat to me…,” while another marched in as the realism police, warning that the vertical scale is “greatly exaggerated,” meaning the sky might look like a jagged mountain range when it shouldn’t. Cue a nerdy but spicy debate: do you want cinematic wow, or strict reality? One commenter even linked another 3D viewer built on ADS‑B (public plane‑tracking signals) to say, basically, “compare notes.”

Practical voices chimed in too: show where flights come from and go to, please. Meanwhile, a dreamer asked for the big one—render every plane in the sky. That’s about 12–14,000 aircraft at once. Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? The thread says maybe not, with some smart optimization and a beefy graphics card. By the end, the community had turned a cool demo into a feature wishlist: clouds, routes, global scope, and more. It’s part discovery, part roast, and all sky‑high energy.