3D Earth with Mapbox GL, D3.js and Three.js

My noob attempt to create a 3D earth out of Mapbox GL (vector) tiles, using a little of D3 and Three.js.

Note that I'm still figuring out how these WebGL/Canvas/3D/performance thing. Contributions and pull requests are welcomed!

Tweets:

• https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/904317333862203392
• https://twitter.com/cheeaun/status/904341545293275136

Getting started

1. git clone this repository
2. npx serve to load a local server

Todos (Contributions welcomed!)

• Replace A-frame with ThreeJS?
• Fix the weird equirectangular dimension (actually not weird)
• Better performance with the raster reprojection
• Less CPU usage

Credits

Cloud image from http://xplanetclouds.com/free/.

Resources

• https://blog.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js-ar-js-a-frame-vr-mapbox-ar-vr-93c09be08742
• https://aframe.io/docs/
• http://hanmomhanda.github.io/mastering-d3-html/chapter11/05-raster/
• https://bl.ocks.org/rasmuse/75fae4fee3354ec41a49d10fb37af551
• https://github.com/rasmuse/d3-geo-warp
• https://github.com/d3/d3-geo/
• https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4329423
• https://threejs.org/examples/software_geometry_earth.html
• https://github.com/miguelmota/threejs-earth
• https://github.com/yomotsu/camera-controls
• https://threejs.org/docs/#api/geometries/SphereGeometry
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRenderingContext
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D
• https://github.com/tizzle/aframe-orbit-controls-component
• https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/issues/9716
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7156971/webgl-readpixels-is-always-returning-0-0-0-0
• https://mapzen.com/blog/escape-from-mercator/