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Millionth Tower is loaded with photos and information
from all over the web, and exists in an online environment that is
about as close to three-dimensional as something on a flat screen
can get.
It exists
in a 3D setting made possible by a tool called three.js, which lets
viewers walk around the high-rise neighborhood. Moving through
allows viewers to see the current state of urban decay, then
activate elements to show ways the residents would change their
world, like an animation showing where a new playground or garden
would go.
The interactive movie is chock-full of photos from
Flickr, street-views from
Google Maps and changing environments fueled by real-time
weather data from Yahoo. Everything is triggered by Popcorn.js, which acts
like a conductor signaling which instruments play at what
times