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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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gpu-curtains: A WebGPU 3D Engine That Syncs Shaders to Your DOM
Martin Laxenaire rebuilt his DOM-to-shader library for WebGPU, and this time it's a full 3D engine. Lights, shadows, compute shaders, glTF support, and the same trick that made curtains.js useful: your HTML elements become shader geometry that scrolls and resizes like native DOM.
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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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Hydra: A Livecoded Video Synth Built on WebGL Framebuffers
Olivia Jack's Hydra turns the browser into a modular video synth. Chain oscillators, kaleidoscopes, and webcam feeds into recursive GLSL patches, then pipe the output to another browser over WebRTC. Type a function, hit Ctrl+Enter, watch the pixels misbehave.
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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.
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Skatebuilder: A 3D Skateboard Configurator
Paint directly onto a 3D skateboard, layer decals, and rotate to inspect your work. Built with React Three Fiber, Skatebuilder handles real-time brush strokes and texture compositing with the kind of polish most product configurators never achieve.
