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Semantic Globe: A WebGPU Earth That Understands Plain English
Type a vibe like "somewhere cold and lonely" and watch a 3D Earth pin the answer. The text embeddings and the planet shaders share one GPU in one browser tab, no server in the loop. Joshua Lochner's quiet flex of what WebGPU can do when nobody is looking.
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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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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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San Rita: A Studio Site Disguised as a Topographic Map
San Rita ditches the agency portfolio grid for something stranger: a navigable topographic landscape where projects sit like waypoints on a trail system. Some paths are open, some are closed for restoration. It's weird, deliberate, and worth inspecting.
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In The Clouds: Tallest Buildings as 40-Meter Blocks
The world's tallest buildings rendered as stacked 40-meter blocks in Three.js. One block equals four floors. Pure client-side WebGL with procedural geometry. No map tiles, just height data and math.
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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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Holiday Snow Globe
Michael Modena's holiday snow globe uses WebGPU compute shaders to create volumetric snow that actually fills the dome with mesh-based particles generating proper normals. Plus a Porsche GT3 drifts inside. It's a Christmas card that doubles as a lighting and compute shader stress test.
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Google's Language Explorer
Explore 7,000+ languages on a slick WebGL-powered globe built by Google Research. Real-time filters, rich metadata, and interactive pins all driven by the LinguaMeta dataset.
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Expeditione: A 1MB Landing Page and 4MB Educational Experience Built in Three.js
Stylized 3D dioramas that teach history, geography, and science. The landing page runs at 1MB. The Soil expedition packs 200+ images, 15+ models, and 10+ animations into 4MB. Vanilla Three.js, custom GLSL, zero ads. Proof that educational web experiences don't need to be bloated.
