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Mapillary: A Street View Stitched Together by Strangers
Hundreds of millions of crowdsourced street photos, blended into a navigable 3D world you can pan through like a panorama. Built on mapillary-js, an open source TypeScript and WebGL library by Oscar Lorentzon. Point clouds, undistorted camera frames, and an S2-cell navigation graph under the hood.
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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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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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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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Sporenkijker: A Live 3D Map of Flanders' Busiest Train Stations
A live digital twin of Belgium's ten busiest train stations, with accurate rail geometry and real-time arrivals rendered in a calm mech-tech style. Built by Guy Van Raemdonck at Studio Haedin.
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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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Tesla's In-Car Touchscreen, Rebuilt for the Browser
David Krasniy reverse-engineered the Tesla Model Y dashboard as a Next.js web app. Full control panels, Spotify integration, tire pressure readouts, and a parameterized image compositor for the car visualization. A masterclass in UI fidelity built from the outside in.
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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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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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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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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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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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WebRF: The Longley-Rice Radio Propagation Model, Running in WebGPU Compute Shaders
Roman Liutikov ported the Longley-Rice ITM algorithm, a real-world radio propagation model used in cell network planning, entirely into WebGPU compute shaders. 1,200 lines of WGSL, a two-pass radial sweep architecture, and coverage maps that actually respect terrain.
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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.
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3D Life Sim Turns Artificial Life Into a WebGPU Instrument
Aaron Lemke's 3D Life Sim is an open-source WebGPU particle life simulation with live audio input, MIDI mapping, presets, and cockpit controls for exploring emergent forms.
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Lacoste Members Experience: A Polo Shirt Co-Creation
Merci-Michel built a Three.js polo customizer with triple UV maps, vertex-encoded metadata, and a pipeline that exports directly to manufacturing. It runs on mobile. It never stutters. Worth studying.
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The Spark: A Scroll-Driven WebGL Story That Runs Like a Short Film
A spark escapes into a city built to contain it. Scroll to push the story forward. cables.gl handles the 3D, Webflow stitches the UI, and the audio reacts to how fast you move. Projection mapping, CRT post-processing, and tight character animation make it feel like a game cutscene.
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WebGPU Hits Critical Mass: All Major Browsers Now Ship It
Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge all ship WebGPU by default. Eight years of spec work finally pays off. Here is what changed, where the gaps remain, and why this matters for graphics and compute on the web.
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WASI-WebGPU 0.3 RC Takes GPU Compute Beyond the Browser
The Phase 2 wasi:webgpu proposal has a 0.3 release candidate, mapping WebGPU-style GPU access into WASI for portable, sandboxed compute across servers, desktops, Android, and the web.
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Git City: GitHub Profiles as a 3D Pixel-Art Skyline
A sprawling 3D pixel-art city viewed from above, where each skyscraper represents a GitHub developer with height set by contributions and lit windows mapping to recent activity.
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Martin Laxenaire's Portfolio Is a WebGPU Game Built on His Own Engine
Martin Laxenaire turned his portfolio into a playable WebGPU experience powered by gpu-curtains, his own 3D engine. Procedural particles, boids, and invoice-sized spheres unlock as you interact. Full source code and a Codrops breakdown included.
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CHILE20: Active Theory's Three-World WebGL Campaign for Adidas Originals
Active Theory built three scroll-driven WebGL worlds for adidas CHILE20, each with its own visual identity. 500K-poly garments baked down to mobile-friendly meshes, fluid cross-world transitions, and a lockdown-era campaign that still holds up.
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Kiomet: A Real-Time Multiplayer Strategy Game Built With Rust and WebGL
Kiomet drops you into a live hex-grid battlefield with dozens of players, 27 tower types, and zero installs. The whole stack is Rust compiled to WebAssembly, rendered through WebGL with custom GLSL shaders. Open source and running in a browser tab.
