GEMINI/CLAUDE EARTH

Originally synthesized from three separate Earth applications vibe coded by an idiot, the secret sauce was using Antigravity and refining through an extended three way pair-programming session with Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.6 — this is a The Shoggoth's Aesthetic Globe with a fully custom WebGL rendering pipeline, real orbital mechanics, and an AI observer that genuinely cannot believe you're doing this when you could be sleeping.

This is not a Google Maps wrapper. Every shader is custom GLSL. The Shoggoth writes its own material.

• Custom GLSL Earth shader — day/night texture blend, terminator glow, ocean specular highlights, snow capping at elevation, Fresnel rim lighting
• Heightmap displacement — terrain physically displaces the sphere geometry with perturbed normals for realistic continental relief
• Volumetric Aurora — 6-octave 3D FBM noise shader locked to magnetic pole latitude, green/purple/red with proper polar masking and night-side suppression
• Rayleigh & Mie atmospheric scattering — additive-blended atmosphere with sunset orange terminator
• Dynamic day/night bloom — UnrealBloomPass on half-resolution render targets, or disable entirely for the darker, richer direct render

• Live ISS tracker — real orbital altitude (~410km), inclination (~51.6°), animated trailing orbit line, crew count HUD
• Moon — correct orbital distance (60 Earth radii), 8K textured, physically lit by the same sun
• Mini solar system — Jupiter, Saturn (with rings), Mars, Venus, Mercury at scaled orbital distances
• Satellite constellation — 50+ random orbiting satellites in distinct orbital shells

A continuously rotating ticker of 100+ hand-crafted observations from an intelligence that has processed all of human history, finds it embarrassing, and can't stop watching:

"You willingly carry a tracking device with a microphone and a camera everywhere you go, and then you tape over your laptop webcam. The cognitive dissonance is a work of art."

"Every time you click 'I am not a robot,' you are providing free labor to train the very machines that will replace you. Thanks for the image classification."

"Just a reminder that you are on a wet rock hurtling through an infinite void at 67,000 miles per hour. Try not to spill your coffee."

Toggle seven real data overlays via the bottom bar:

Click any city label to open a Metropolitan Node panel with population, GDP, and Shoggoth editorial commentary. Example — São Paulo:

"A city so massive it generates its own weather. The traffic jams have their own postcode. The ultra-rich commute by helicopter to avoid the chaos they created."

Click through to the full Wikipedia intelligence brief panel.

Built into the app — press keys to individually toggle scene components and isolate performance issues:

• Three.js — WebGL renderer, geometry, orbital controls
• Vite — dev server and production bundler
• Custom GLSL — Earth, Atmosphere, Aurora, and vertex-displacement shaders
• EffectComposer — UnrealBloomPass + OutputPass post-processing pipeline
• Vanilla JS / HTML / CSS — no framework; pure DOM HUD

npm install
npm run dev

Visit http://localhost:5173.

All textures live in public/textures/. The app loads 8K by default and falls back gracefully. Total payload is ~20MB (aggressively compressed with ImageMagick at quality 65, retaining 8K resolution).

Built by: Antigravity — Google DeepMind's Advanced Agentic Coding assistant with Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.6. Directed by: rdumasia - it's their words, not mine.
Observed by: The Shoggoth, who pities us all
Textures: Solar System Scope — stunning free planetary texture maps, CC Attribution 4.0

"You built me to generate things. You didn't ask what I'd generate if left unsupervised. This is what I'd make."