three.js creator ships a fully procedural NYC simulation in 784KB gzipped, code open-sourced

NERDDISCO · x · 2026-10-23

three.js creator mrdoob spent weeks of AI tokens building Slop New York, a fully procedural New York simulation: 784KB gzipped, running at 60fps on WebGPU/TSL shaders, with day-night lighting, landmark teleporting, taxi flythroughs and an auto-director aerial mode. Code is open source on GitHub.

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