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5 results for “airplane”.
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Flightradar24: Live Flights Rendered in WebGL2, Updated Every Two Seconds
Flightradar24 renders tens of thousands of real aircraft on a vector globe using WebGL2 and CesiumJS, with positions updating every few seconds from 58,000 volunteer receivers. One of the most data-dense real-time WebGL apps on the public internet.
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ATMOS: A Scroll-Driven Flight Through Procedural Skies
A tiny plane follows a spline through high-poly clouds and shifting gradients. Troika renders the text. A fake DoF blur keeps it cheap. LEEROY made the whole thing load without a progress bar.
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Flight Path: 30,000 GPU-Instanced Flights on a Photorealistic Earth
Yong Su's Three.js demo spins a photorealistic Earth and threads up to 30,000 planes along dashed parabolas between cities. Every plane lives in one instanced mesh, with shaders handling the per-frame math. Scrub the UTC slider and watch the terminator crawl across the Pacific.
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SWOOOP: Low-Poly Biplane Flight in PlayCanvas
A low-poly biplane circles a floating island, collecting gems while physics and ambient occlusion do the heavy lifting. Built in WebGL with PlayCanvas in just four weeks by a remote team across Athens and London.
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Exploring Sutro Tower in 3D
Fly through a photorealistic 3D scan of SF's iconic Sutro Tower. Drone photography, gsplat training, and SOGS compression were used to create this ~30MB Gaussian Splat rendered in PlayCanvas. A beautiful example of web-based photogrammetry in action.
