> Building the 2023 BFCM Globe was a journey in pushing the boundaries of what is possible with instancing and WebGL.
lol .. seems pretty dramatic. I didn't see anything in the article that looked remotely like it was pushing boundaries.
Still, nice read, and a pretty visualization to be sure!
"A key element of risograph prints is the noise that you see all over them. They are covered with little dots of varying sizes."
A bit of noise can often go a long way to make a design wholesome (e. g. [1]), but in this case I honestly find it over the top. It's too much and too much in your face.
I need more engineering blogs like this. Just seems like a fun project.
The irony: all this mass consumption is not what makes "the globe" very happy.
I want this but for news and events tracking using already published articles
Is there any open source like this?
Fair play, that is impressive. I am generally underwhelmed by Shopify, seeing them as another vulture capitalist way of leeching money out of small businesses the globe over, but props to this animation. Even the work gone into making the blog post is extremely impressive.
I for one am glad you shared. Those fireworks are awesome.
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GitHub made a similar visualization a few years ago and also blogged about it: https://github.blog/engineering/engineering-principles/how-w...