The Times staff put together this impressive piece in less than a day, using scrolling to control a glTF file rendered via Three.js (see 10s recording below). Creator Graham Roberts tweets, “This approach/style stems from our AR efforts over the past 18 months. Originally built as a fallback to camera mode, but now also a great way to make the web more dimensional towards a spatial future.”
A great *single day* effort by Immersive / Graphics / international to cover this breaking news story. Congrats to the teams. https://t.co/4I0mDb85HN pic.twitter.com/FvVojbMYEP
— Graham Roberts (@Grahaphics) April 17, 2019
Tangentially related: Firefighters used a half-ton robot named Colossus to help battle the blaze:
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