Water Underground

2011

Global ground water data visualization

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Water Underground is an interactive data visualization of global ground water data spanning almost 10 years (2002-2011). This was once of my first interactive 3D WebGL projects.

The globe is rendered as an array of concentric rings with each data point being mapped to the geometry using its lat/long coordinates. The lines use a custom shader which maps water level to a corresponding color and height offset.

This was a really fun project to experiment with 3D data visualization and start learning about writing shaders.