prdx23 / earth

Realtime render of the earth built with pure WebGL and Typescript

🌍 Earth

Realtime render of the earth built with pure WebGL and Typescript.
Check it out live: earth.glitchcomet.com

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

Attribution

Textures used from:

• NASA's Visible Earth collections
• Solar System Scope

License

GPLv3 License: Copyright (c) Arsh License.txt