Watch four billion years of humanity in a pixel shader

Humanity is a pixel shader which can run in your browser and tells the story of 4 billion years of human history.

January 30, 2022 · 1 min · 18 words · David Johnson

I’m coming to all of this late.

He’s since writtenanother post breaking down the experience of going “viral”.

A screenshot of Humanity, a pixel shader, depicting an earth-like planet as seen from space, with half the planet in shadow and city lights visible.