Visual History of the Latin Alphabet(uclab.fh-potsdam.de)

134 points by speckx 1 year ago | 77 comments

The Last Museum: Semantic search across 5.8M artworks from major museums(lastmuseum.com)

107 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 30 comments

The Last Museum is a website offering semantic search across millions of artworks from major museums, with filters by date range, artists, and cultures.

Historical Tech Tree(historicaltechtree.com)

486 points by louisfd94 1 year ago | 107 comments

An interactive visualization by Étienne Fortier-Dubois mapping technological history from 3 million years ago to today, with about 1948 technologies and their connections.

Artificio de Juanelo(en.wikipedia.org)

86 points by benbreen 2 years ago | 10 comments

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history(waratlas.org)

177 points by NaOH 3 months ago | 68 comments

Kitagawa Utamaro Japanese Painter(theartstory.org)

22 points by rawgabbit 1 year ago | 1 comments

Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code(museumofages.org)

82 points by micstradev 12 days ago | 33 comments

Museum of Ages' free browser-based 3D guided tour of a Leonardo da Vinci museum, featuring his paintings, rebuilt machines, manuscripts, and his house in Amboise.

Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify(5-million-devs.netlify.com)

574 points by franck 1 year ago | 221 comments

An interactive Marble Madness-inspired WebGL browser game built with Three.js and Rapier physics to celebrate Netlify reaching 5 million developers.

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?(rivendell.dmitrybrant.com)

544 points by dmitrybrant 1 month ago | 236 comments

Interactive 3D browser simulation of a park where the speed of light is 5 km/h, showing length contraction, time dilation, Terrell rotation and Doppler effects.

Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization(visualrambling.space)

825 points by damarberlari 1 year ago | 132 comments

An interactive slide-style visual explainer on moving objects in 3D space using parametric equations, building up to a spherical helix path.

Show HN: I built a virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons(diceright.com)

354 points by YakiSauce 3 years ago | 101 comments

Landing page for DiceRight, a web-based virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons online with friends.

Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL(pouria.dev)

597 points by poeti8 3 years ago | 111 comments

A small interactive WebGL experiment recreating the Joy Division Unknown Pleasures album cover visualization; the capture shows only a loading spinner.