WebGL Twitter wall - nouvelle vague (opens in new tab)

Interesting tech display but useless interface.

The animation is a bit stuttery and I am having trouble seeing the value of not-really-seeing-tweets, still very novel to see all of this.

"ultranoir recommends Google Chrome 9+ rather than your Safari version to fully enjoy the Nouvelle Vague experience." I have WebGL enabled on safari and everything worked, but this annoying message stayed over the page the entire time and made it unusable. Rather annoying, as there isn't any reason to restrict this to chrome if Safari has WebGL enabled.

That was cool, but couldn't figure out how to move around other than tilt even after reading all the controls explanation.

It's neat, but not particularly useful. But neat.

The best thing about this is that I now know that these Twitter visualisations are called "Twitter walls". I've spent the last week working on my own, and now I know that there are already many in existence. But I like my own :-)

I was absolutely blown away... then I realised that I was watching an intro video. The actual main functionality is still pretty cool, though.

tl;dw