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A Yurok Village in WebGL, Built From LIDAR Scans

CyArk's Tapestry tour of Sumêg Village drops you into a Yurok ancestral village above the Pacific, rendered from survey-grade LIDAR captured in 2021. Cedar plank houses, sweat house, dance house. Guided narration first, then WASD and free run of the place.

Apr 30, 2026

Ad-Deir Monastery in WebGL: CyArk's Tapestry Takes You Inside Petra

CyArk's Tapestry rebuilds Petra's Ad-Deir Monastery from LiDAR and photogrammetry, then hands you the keys. A narrated seven-scene tour on a high-res textured mesh, with a free-explore mode sharing the same source of truth. Restrained engineering dressed up as a field trip.

Apr 9, 2026

UNESCO's Virtual Museum of Stolen Artifacts, Rebuilt in 3D with NanoGL

A WebGL museum you weren't expecting to need. makemepulse rebuilt 240+ looted artifacts in 3D using their in-house NanoGL framework and a generative AI pipeline that turns flat photos into textured models. Architect Francis Kéré designed the space. The subject matter does the rest.

Feb 16, 2026

Persepolis Reimagined

Media.Monks and Getty Museum built a browser-based tour through ancient Persepolis at its peak. Full-scale WebGL recreation of the Persian capital with smart optimizations: instancing, frustum culling, LOD systems. Nine months of dev work with historians to nail the details. Worth exploring.

Dec 25, 2025