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Semantic Globe: A WebGPU Earth That Understands Plain English
Type a vibe like "somewhere cold and lonely" and watch a 3D Earth pin the answer. The text embeddings and the planet shaders share one GPU in one browser tab, no server in the loop. Joshua Lochner's quiet flex of what WebGPU can do when nobody is looking.
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Holiday Snow Globe
Michael Modena's holiday snow globe uses WebGPU compute shaders to create volumetric snow that actually fills the dome with mesh-based particles generating proper normals. Plus a Porsche GT3 drifts inside. It's a Christmas card that doubles as a lighting and compute shader stress test.
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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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3D Life Sim Turns Artificial Life Into a WebGPU Instrument
Aaron Lemke's 3D Life Sim is an open-source WebGPU particle life simulation with live audio input, MIDI mapping, presets, and cockpit controls for exploring emergent forms.
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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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Vermeer's Milkmaid Dissolved into WebGPU Particles
Revelium Studio broke Vermeer's 1658 Milkmaid into thousands of GPU-driven particles using WebGPU and Three.js TSL. Color-sampled from the original painting, the result is a particle cloud that somehow still holds the composition together. Worth a long stare.
