A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are trying to free-climb the nearly 3,000-foot Dawn Wall, a vertical sheet of mostly smooth granite that many believe is the most difficult climb in the world. Neat WebGL powered visualisation of The Dawn Wall, a route to climbing El Capitan. Wish it were a tad more interactive though (such …
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The ISEE-3 was launched to study the Sun in 1978, but ended up redefining space flight. Now it’s on a new mission to become citizen science’s first spacecraft, with data accessible by everyone. Very cool mission, with a very neat website. A must watch. A Spacecraft for All: The Journey of the ISEE-3 →
The PlayCanvas Engine is a JavaScript library engineered specifically for building video games. It implements all of the major components that you need to write high quality games: Graphics: model loading, per-pixel lighting, shadow mapping, post effects Physics: rigid body simulation, ray casting, joints, trigger volumes, vehicles Animation: keyframing, skeletal blending, skinning Audio engine: 2D …
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Unnumbered Sparks is a monumental interactive sculpture in the sky. Choreographed by visitors in real time through their mobile devices, at night the sculpture became a crowd-controlled visual artwork on a giant, floating canvas. Built using Chrome; Powered by Go, WebGL, WebSockets, Web Audio, and Polymer: Truly impressive. Unnumbered Sparks →
Graffiti General is an immersive WebGL plunge into an abandoned building near Paris and the countless graffiti works that it enshrines. On the eve of it’s restoration, the memory of the building in its current state is preserved and accessible to everybody. Graffiti General was made possible thanks to a combination of the very latest …