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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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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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Forged.build
Forged.build turns a studio site into a cinematic 3D workshop built in WebGPU. Scroll through a real-time space with baked GI, dynamic highlights, and custom shaders. Built by Michael Modena to show what a small team can do with modern web graphics.
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Noomo's 3D Storytelling Site: A Walk Through Phoenix
Noomo's storytelling site turns five client stories into rooms in a lit hallway, with animation bound to scroll instead of autoplay. Three.js doing the heavy lifting, WebGPU peeking around the corner on sister projects. Worth opening the network tab for.
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Find Your Way to Oz: The 2013 Chrome Experiment
UNIT9 built a full Kansas carnival in WebGL for Disney, then destroyed it with a tornado shader borrowed from neuroscience. No physics engine. No framework. Just clever faking, spatial audio, and a three-month deadline. The source is open.
