Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

(foldingglobes.com)

48 points | by dango2506 6 hours ago ago

11 comments

  • bbor 2 minutes ago

    This is pretty great! To the creator(s) if they’re around in here: if you’ve ever dreamed of a smooth, unified transition between the product’s actual scan .svg and the 3D simulation[1], I have some old code for simulating origami paper folding in three.js that could handle this elegantly. It works by drawing faces based on rotating springs at each edge, anchored at two points each and executed in a (hierarchical) procedure.

    The repo’s in a messy state of primarily-artificial cleanup atm (fml tbh, btw) but it should be trivial to pull out the parts you’d need for a one-off & one-step sim like this.

    Apologies if obvious lol — it’s getting harder and harder these days to judge that

    [1] obviously get why you’re not loading 3D on pageload, so worth pointing out that the same might be possible here with a clever .svg<->.ts swap.

  • hahahaa 5 hours ago

    6.95 or point my LLM at the site and copy the simple idea.

  • Max-q 3 hours ago

    Icosahedron is the classic? I have never ever seen an icosahedron globe in my life, neither real or digital. What in the world happened in the brain or artificial neural network when that title was picked for an icosahedron “globe”?

  • pimlottc 4 hours ago

    The icons for the different shapes don’t really make a lot of sense. It’s not really obvious how some of them work and many are quite unlike the actual pattern (which you have to scroll down to see on mobile).

    Also Cahill–Keyes M, which I’ve never heard of or seen before, is described as “the classic M”. That’s not really helpful.

  • AmazingEveryDay 5 hours ago
  • monegator 3 hours ago

    neat idea. hate the vibecoded website. Not even changing the default colors.

  • Snoeprol 3 hours ago

    Website is a bit scuffed on mobile