Scroll through 4.54 billion years of Earth history on a photorealistic 3D globe — vibe-coded in about 30 minutes
Earth — The making of home is an interactive 3D website that lets you scroll through 4.54 billion years of Earth's history on a photorealistic globe: drag to orbit, scroll to travel through time, from formation through first oceans, Snowball Earth and Pangaea to today. Sections cover The Planet, Civilization, Orbit, Moon, Earthquakes, Oceans, the Solar System and even live Air Traffic.
The build story is the headline. On the author's builtbyvibe.dev project page: “It only used 4% of my weekly limit (20x plan)... ‘Create an interactive web platform visually showing the history of the earth, how it changed over billions of years, and a timeline showing how humans spread throughout the earth’... Surprisingly it finished in like 30 minutes.” The builtbyvibe announcement credits the AI tool Astra. The author's GitHub repo (ethanplusai/earth-moon-solar) saw a push on 2026-09-10.
Visual polish is exceptional for a half-hour build: real imagery blended with realtime 3D, a geological timeline with animated surface changes, and cinematic camera work — a natural fit for teaching and science communication.
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