About
Helm is a command center for a live universe — a control surface, not a level. The core sits in the middle of the screen; everything else wraps around it: a node roster with link status, a topology graph of the connections between them, stacks of streaming telemetry that read out in realtime, and a deck of knobs for tweaking the simulation as it runs. The frame is the drone-operator / mission-control idea — one thing under watch in the centre, every instrument you need arranged around the edges.
This build is a prototype of that surface. The layout, the live telemetry feed, the topology graph and the knob deck are all here and animating, but the feed is a dummy signal and the knobs don't drive anything yet — the central planet is a blueprint placeholder for the object being monitored. It's the shell the realtime streaming platform plugs into: swap the dummy signal for real streams, wire the knobs to the simulation, and the command center is live.
Specs
- Mode
- Solo
- Type
- Control surface / dashboard
- Controls
- Point, drag & tap
- Platform
- Any modern browser
- Install
- None
- Cost
- Free
Credits
- WRI Global Power Plant Database — CC BY 4.0 · reprojected onto the coverage grid
- Kontur Population Dataset — CC BY 4.0 · 3 km H3 hexagons aggregated onto the coverage grid
- Overture Maps Foundation — ODbL 1.0 · places theme, release 2026-07-22.0, filtered to a bounding box
- NOAA NCEI ETOPO 2022 Global Relief Model — Public domain (US Government) · downsampled to an equirectangular elevation raster