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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.

Apr 22, 2026

ChartGPU: WebGPU-Powered Charts That Hold Up at a Million Points

A WebGPU charting library that pans and zooms a million points without blinking. LTTB downsampling runs as a compute shader, hit-testing is GPU-accelerated, and each series ships as a single instanced draw. Line, area, bar, scatter, pie, candlestick. 97% TypeScript, 3% WGSL, MIT-licensed.

Apr 21, 2026

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.

Apr 15, 2026

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.

Mar 25, 2026

Bear 71: An Immersive Documentary Where a Grizzly Bear Becomes a Data Point

A grizzly bear's tracked territory rendered as surveillance grid. The NFB and Jam3 built a WebGL environment where Banff National Park looks like a living dashboard and coexistence feels like a systems problem.

Mar 5, 2026

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.

Mar 4, 2026

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.

Feb 28, 2026

Embedding Atlas: Apple's Open-Source Tool for Exploring Millions of Vectors in Your Browser

Apple's Embedding Atlas renders millions of embedding points interactively using WebGPU (with WebGL 2 fallback), Wasm-compiled UMAP, and density-based clustering that runs in milliseconds. Open source, with React, Svelte, Jupyter, and CLI support.

Feb 14, 2026

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.

Feb 12, 2026

NGL Viewer: WebGL Molecular Graphics That Scales to Millions of Atoms

A WebGL viewer that renders proteins, DNA, and virus capsids with millions of atoms, smoothly, on desktop or phone. Hyperball shaders, MMTF parsing, and a selection language that actually works.

Jan 14, 2026

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.

Jan 4, 2026

LLM Visualization: A 3D Interactive Walkthrough of GPT-Style Transformers

A stunning 3D visualization that lets you explore every layer, attention head, and matrix operation inside a GPT-style LLM. Watch inference happen in real time and finally grok how transformers actually work.

Dec 29, 2025

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.

Dec 15, 2025