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Life & fun · November 6, 2012

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First WebGL app. Uses NOAA data to visualize storm paths back to 1848.

First WebGL app. Uses NOAA data to visualize storm paths back to 1848. launched on November 6, 2012 with 55 votes, #36 of 543 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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First WebGL App is a browser-based visualization tool that uses NOAA data to display historical storm paths dating back to 1848. Created by Callum and his daughter, the application presents climate and weather information in an interactive 3D format. The tool offers users an accessible way to explore long-term storm patterns and observe climate trends over more than 170 years of recorded data.

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An updated version of an previous (2018) global temperature change experiment . My 12 year old daughter and I created this much simpler, cleaner version. We had a blast working on it together - as well as some deep, thought provoking learning about the awful direction our climate is heading. Let us know what you think. Another incarnation of the Street Cloud experiments (see below) that combines pixels from the Street View panoramas with 3D depth information and displays the result as a 3D point cloud. I had given up playing with this after constant, breaking changes to the relevant APIs. However, the supremely talented Spite wrote some code to grab pano textures and depth maps so this…from callum.com

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