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Shinjuku Station Indoor Turns Tokyo’s Maze Into a Three.js Map
Satoshi Komatsu’s Three.js viewer turns open indoor map data for Shinjuku Station into a layered 3D wireframe, with floor toggles and pedestrian-network controls for reading Tokyo’s famous maze.
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Earthquake Pulse Map: A Century of Seismic Activity on a WebGL Globe
A Three.js globe plotting 120+ years of major earthquakes with custom GLSL shaders, binary-packed data, and live USGS feeds. Spin, zoom, and scrub through time. The tectonic boundaries light up whether you're ready or not.
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The Globe of Economic Complexity: Visualizing $15 Trillion in World Trade
Harvard's WebGL experiment animates 153,000 particles to map global exports. Each dot = $100M. Built with Three.js, it's a masterclass in data viz that's begging for a modern remake with up-to-date capabilities and data.
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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.
