Interactive 3D WebGL Globe for real-time daylight cycles
Details
- External ID
- 47214059
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Interactive 3D WebGL Globe for real-time daylight cycles
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Oclock is an interactive 3D WebGL globe that visualizes real-time daylight cycles. Built with Globe.gl and pre-processed spatial data pipeline.Processing PipelineThe data generation is handled by timezone_data_generator.py. This script performs the following:1. Geometry Analysis: Uses shapely to find a representative point inside each country's boundary.2. Timezone Mapping: Uses timezonefinder to look up the specific IANA timezone string for those coordinates.3. Data Injection: Injects the timezone and coordinates back into the GeoJSON properties for use by the frontend.Live Demo: https://azialle.github.io/Oclock/
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- 3d globe visualization with daylight cycles
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Using Globe.gl and Python geospatial libraries like Shapely to compute solar terminators and visualize daylight cycles is standard frontend data visualization.
Discussion
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