Tag archives: webgl

Make your own little planet

This is super fun. San Francisco-based web programmer Ryan Alexander has created a fun web app that creates a “little planet” using photos from any Google Street View.

Called the ‘Street View Stereographic’, all one has to do is simply type in the geographic location in the search bar and images will be quickly projected as a sphere. Read more…

WEBGL TWITTER VISUALIZER & HOLOGRAPHIC INSTALLATION

This is a Twitter visualization tool with a modern twist. The site created for CNN in advance of the COP17 Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, utilizes the WebGL capabilities of modern browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari to create a globe populated with trees that grow in realtime. Every tweet tagged with hashtag #COP17 will stimulate growth in a plant or tree in the Ecosphere that represents a certain topic, such as sustainability. Read more…