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🏛️ Glasgow: From Industrial Powerhouse to Cultural Capital

A 3D explorer of Glasgow's Victorian sandstone architecture and River Clyde shipbuilding heritage, with a toggle between industrial-era and present-day cityscape.

Civil Engineering & Structural Mechanics3DModerate60 FPS

A 3D model of a Glasgow city block along the River Clyde, morphing between the soot-blackened Victorian sandstone tenements and giant shipyard cranes of 1900, and today's cleaned stone and glass-fronted riverfront culture buildings.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

How the same sandstone tenement terraces and Clyde riverbank changed physically: stone colour from soot-black to sandstone-blonde, shipyard cranes disappearing, and modern riverfront museums and concert halls rising in their place.

🎮 How to Use

Drag the Era slider (or click Toggle era) to blend between 1900 and today. Adjust smoke density, the number of vessels on the Clyde, and time of day, then orbit the camera to explore the block from any angle.

💡 Did You Know?

At its industrial peak, shipyards along the Clyde built roughly a fifth of the world's ships; many of Glasgow's tenements were only cleaned back to their original sandstone colour from the 1970s onward.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D explorer of Glasgow's Victorian sandstone architecture and River Clyde shipbuilding heritage, with a toggle between industrial-era and present-day cityscape.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install