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Sightings from the internet's outer edge: sites, machines and builds that make you scroll back up and check how they did it. Screenshots first. Receipts always.
01 · On the web ·
The flat map stands up: OpenStreetMap rendered as a 3D world
Streets GL takes the planet's volunteer-drawn map data and extrudes it into a sunlit 3D city with reflections, terrain and live air traffic, in one browser tab.
02 · On the web ·
Spin the planet, hear it sing
Radio Garden puts every live radio station on one rotating globe. The interface is a planet, the content is humanity, the click count is one.
03 · On the web ·
A whole animation in 140 characters of JavaScript
Dwitter is a gallery of animations whose entire source is 140 characters or fewer. One function runs every frame on a canvas, and people remix each other's math for fun.
04 · Play ·
A parody operating system that boots to a desktop full of working toys
Windows 93 is a fake OS in the browser that plays the PlayStation boot chime and hides dozens of real little apps and games behind its pixel-art icons.
05 · Machines ·
Dozens of operating systems, each one bootable in a browser tab
v86 emulates a whole x86 PC in the browser and boots a hundred-plus operating systems, from Windows 1.01 to 9front, by recompiling their machine code to WebAssembly live.
06 · Play ·
Type a formula and the GPU paints every pixel at once
The Book of Shaders teaches GLSL in a live editor where each pixel's color is computed in parallel from its own coordinate. Change a line, the whole image recompiles.
07 · On the web ·
The art is an algorithm someone left running
Anders Hoff writes small generative programs, differential growth, branching hyphae, sanded splines, then lets simple local rules run until they buckle into organic art.
08 · Play ·
Paint a low-poly planet into being, one tile at a time
Oskar Stalberg's Planet lets you brush terrain onto a tiny globe; hand-built tiles snap to your edits via the vertex trick that grew into Townscaper.
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