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🌍 Earth

Realtime render of the earth built with pure WebGL and Typescript.

It has the following features:

• Atmospheric rayleigh scattering
• Blinn phong lighting
• Sphere mesh created by recursively subdividing a handmade icosahedron
• Specular highlights masked to oceans, rivers and ice
• Separate day and night textures
• Basic particle system to render procedural stars
• Orbit camera with auto-adjusting FOV for viewport size
• Implementations of Vec3, Matrix4 and Quaternion
• HDR tone mapping and gamma correction

Controls

• move: wasd, arrow keys or click/touch and drag
• zoom: +/- keys or mouse scroll

Attribution

• NASA's Visible Earth collections
• Solar System Scope