Cool WebGL Stuff, 2020-12-17

[Ken Russell]

Here's the last installment of cool stuff for 2020 found by Khronos' WebGL working group!

• Blob Opera: https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/AAHWrq360NcGbw

• GitHub added a 3D globe: https://github.com/home (more info)

• Video editor: Clipchamp - clipchamp.com

• Animation editor: Rive 2 - beta.rive.app

• WebXR demo collections:

• https://webvr.directory/

• https://xrca.de/

• https://www.realityisnotreal.com/

• https://webxr.today/

• https://xrsites.com

• Mapping libraries:

• OpenLayers

• tangrams/tangram: WebGL map rendering engine for creative cartography

• harp.gl

• Samsy - Creative Technologist / 3D Developer
  http://samsy.ninja/

• Show HN: Exophysics – WebGL2 particle simulator | Hacker News
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25319394

• 740,468 public transport stops in Germany
  https://studio.unfolded.ai/public/bf7a0097-e809-4c7b-944c-47fcf7376380 (tweet)

• Ready Player Me - Personal 3D Avatars for Games and VR.
  https://readyplayer.me/

• Beatmapper: Beat Saber map builder
  https://beatmapper.app/

• Blockbench 3D modeler
  https://blockbench.net/

• familiars.io: MMO that runs in a Twitter video embed (PixiJS)
  https://twitter.com/ClayLoam/status/1337488664243277824

• All the Tilt Brush shaders by @Samsyyyy

• Best realtime models on Sketchfab this month

• Mapbox GL JS v2

• WebXR Awards - nominations due Dec 31

• Aircraft Sikorsky S-2 (3D модель літака БІС-2) by AERO3D

• Pagoda on fire by ConradJustin

• Shadertoy is now using KHR_parallel_shader_compile!

• Soviet TV KVN-49 by Osho

• Ray Marching Experiment 43 by aiekick

• Up to 130M points rendered in-browser by @rickyreusser

• Gym Equipments by Elvair Lima

• Baubles by @thespite

• tixy.land renderer by @matths

• WebXR modeler by @dannyaroslavski

• Basketball AR demo by @Lady_Ada_King

• Transformation demo (Excavator) in Sketchfab by @klaasnienhuis

• PlayCanvas Engine v1.37.1 released!

• PixiJS v5.3.5 released!

• WebAssembly encoding for Basis Universal released!

• Austria peaks in 3D by @pheeelicks

Please share your own creations and findings!

Happy holidays and New Year!

-Ken

P.S. Also archived at https://gfxprose.blogspot.com/2020/12/cool-webgl-stuff-2020-12-17.html .

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