BifrostControl Deck

An intelligence platform for strategic conflict simulation: live aircraft, live economies and a missile simulator, converging on one interactive 3D globe.

Bifrost backend — data feeds

OpenSkyconnected
11,000+ live aircraft, rendered on the globe in real time
FREDconnected
Economic indicators per country — GDP, inflation, unemployment, rates
Missilesconnected
Simulator loadout — 118 publicly documented systems
AISStreamplanned
Maritime traffic — backend WebSocket relay ready, globe layer in progress

BIFROST Control Deck — missile loadout, aircraft telemetry and economic data over the 3D globe — 00 — Full session: loadout armed, aircraft tracked, Russia's economy on screen

/development

Personal project in progress focused on economic warfare, physical conflict, and realistic 3D simulation. It features an interactive dashboard for managing entities across the world with live operational context.

/stack

Next.js
Globe.gl
Three.js
FastAPI
SQLAlchemy
MySQL
OpenSky
FRED
AISStream

/ux design

Designing the operational dashboard of the platform: information hierarchy for dense live data, interaction patterns for navigating entities on a 3D globe, and a dark interface language built for a high-focus, control-room feel.

/tools & methods

Information architecture
Data visualization
Interaction design
Dark UI

/architecture

Three tiers, one bridge: the Control Deck never touches an API key or an external provider directly — everything crosses the FastAPI backend, Bifrost's namesake.

Tier 01

Control Deck

Next.js frontend

A globe.gl scene with three.js sprites: aircraft rendered as SVG plane icons through a texture cache, colored by ADS-B category. Country polygons come from TopoJSON, a cloud mesh animates on demand, and shadcn/radix panels handle telemetry, economy snapshots and the missile loadout.

globe.gl
three.js
TopoJSON
shadcn/ui
Tailwind 4

Tier 02

Bifrost Backend

FastAPI bridge

Every feed crosses this bridge — the browser never sees an API key. Routes delegate to per-provider services over a shared httpx client: OAuth-authenticated OpenSky calls, FRED queries composed into per-country economy snapshots, and a WebSocket relay that injects the AISStream key and forwards position reports downstream.

GET /api/opensky/states/all
GET /api/economy/country?name=Russia
GET /api/missiles
WS /api/aisstream/stream

Tier 03

Data Sources

Live feeds & storage

OpenSky Network for live aircraft states, flights and tracks; FRED for economic series; AISStream for maritime traffic; and a MySQL catalog of publicly documented missile systems, queried through SQLAlchemy.

OpenSky REST
FRED REST
AISStream WS
MySQL + SQLAlchemy

/the control deck

BIFROST Control Deck — Live traffic — 11,144 aircraft streamed from OpenSky onto the night globe — 01 — Live traffic — 11,144 aircraft streamed from OpenSky onto the night globe

BIFROST Control Deck — Category filters — traffic over Europe, colored by ADS-B class — 02 — Category filters — traffic over Europe, colored by ADS-B class

BIFROST Control Deck — Aircraft telemetry — callsign, route, altitude and live position per contact — 03 — Aircraft telemetry — callsign, route, altitude and live position per contact

BIFROST Control Deck — Economic warfare — country selection with live FRED indicators — 04 — Economic warfare — country selection with live FRED indicators

BIFROST Control Deck — Simulator workspace — cloud layer on, missile loadout armed — 05 — Simulator workspace — cloud layer on, missile loadout armed

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