Flight Tracking

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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

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