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Interactive project 3D Visualization 2025

Natural Earth Globe

Spin a 3D globe textured with Natural Earth satellite imagery. Tiles stream on demand from a COG on Cloudflare R2 via TiTiler, rendered in Three.js WebGL.

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Natural Earth Globe — 3D WebGL globe with streamed XYZ tiles

What it does

A true-scale WebGL globe streaming raster tiles on demand — built to show how heavy satellite imagery can be served interactively without shipping gigabytes to the browser.

Three.js WebGL globe at true Earth radius (6,371 km) for accurate scale

Natural Earth satellite texture from a 15 MB Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF

TiTiler tile server running in a Cloudflare Container for on-demand XYZ tiles

Smooth orbit controls with damping for desktop and trackpad

Multiple tile sources: Versatiles OSM, OpenFreeMap, ESRI satellite

Real-time FPS counter and visible-tile stats overlay

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