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CELL CITY

Building geometry: Project PLATEAU / MLIT, Japan. Processed for this demonstration. Roads and railways: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Three.js: MIT. License. Inspired by Cell Broadband Engine. No affiliation with Sony or PlayStation.

GENESIS

Original artificial-life project. Source-available. Viewing permitted; use by permission.

This site

Playground is an original procedural valley, with modeled terrain, plants and places built in code. The entry garden includes an articulated person and dachshund.

The opening animation is inspired by the Nintendo GameCube startup. No affiliation with Nintendo.

Textures: Forest Ground 03 — Rob Tuytel · Pine Bark — Dimitrios Savva. Poly Haven · CC0.

Sound · Kamil Ijuin

Wind, water and tonal sounds are synthesized in the browser. Sound starts off and plays when enabled.

The opening’s stamping sounds are synthesized in the browser too, and start only after PRESS.

Shared foundations

Standards decide who gets to build.

Borrowed

PLATEAU

7,770 PLATEAU-derived building records, adapted for CELL CITY.

PDL 1.0 / CC BY 4.0 compatible · adaptedAdapted from Project PLATEAU, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan.Source ↗Current terms ↗
OpenStreetMap

Roads and railways created and maintained by a community of contributors.

© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL 1.0Source and license ↗

Returned

GENESIS

No runtime packages or build step. Three saved worlds included.

Source-available. Viewing permitted; use by permission.License ↗Saved worlds ↗
CELL CITY

Browser code and processed city data, with sources and licenses.

Code: viewing only, use by permission · data: separate termsLicenses ↗Data provenance ↗
Measurement records

Dated checks, with their methods and limits.

Read the checks

As a student, I studied how standards shape the spread of technology.

ARPANET's TCP/IP was documented in public specifications; PARC's Ethernet also became a shared specification.

What interests me is how an invention becomes something others can use.

DARPA ↗ · Ethernet specification ↗

Kalam: SIL Open Font License. Klee One: SIL Open Font License. Cormorant Garamond, Inter, Shippori Mincho: self-hosted, SIL Open Font License. HLS.js 1.6.19: Apache 2.0.