canxerian / arctic-sea-ice

Arctic sea ice 3D data visualisation built with React + BabylonJS

Arctic Sea Ice Data Visualisation

A cosy, 3D data visualisation using National Snow and Ice Data Center, https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/data-and-image-archive.

Live site: https://canxerian.com/arctic-sea-ice

Getting Start

Install dependencies

npm install

Run locally

npm start

Assets

Arctic Sea Index data

The data was downloaded from https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/data-and-image-archive. Script used to process the data lives here: combineIceData.js, downloadImages.js

NASA Earth textures

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

Image based lighting

.env files are created using the BabylonJS IBL tool. See https://doc.babylonjs.com/features/featuresDeepDive/materials/using/HDREnvironment