secwind7/polytech-tree
Interactive 3D map of the human tech tree, from the first stone tools to 2024: technologies stacked as a tower of eras in three.js, with prerequisite and relation edges, hover cards and a guided camera tour. All data lives in plain JSON, so adding a technology, era or domain is one pull request away.
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English · 中文 一座可以自由旋转的"科技之塔"：人类历史上的每一项科技都是一个多面体节点，按时代分层堆叠，按领域分扇区着色。 需要 Node.js 18+ 和 Python 3（仅 validate 用到）。 技术栈：TypeScript + three.js + Vite。无后端、无运行时网络请求，全部数据在构建时打进包里。 分两块，都已生效：代码（src/、scripts/）为 MIT；数据（data/）的结构化字段为 CC BY 4.0，而中文 desc 摘要里源自英文维基百科的部分继续按 CC BY-SA 4.0 提供并署名（英文维基是相同方式共享，翻译算衍生作品），每条对应的英文条目名见该条目的 wikiEn。 新增科技、时代、领域，请看 CONTRIBUTING.md。数据是普通 JSON，改完跑一次 npm run validate 即可提 PR。 A freely rotatable "tower of technology": every technology humans ever invented is a polyhedron, stacked in era layers and split into domain sectors by angle. Interactions: drag to orbit, wheel to zoom, right-drag to pan, hover a node for its card (bilingual name, year, era, domain, importance, prerequisites, summary), and press the tour button to fly the camera up through the eras. Built with TypeScript, three.js and Vite. No backend and no runtime network calls — the dataset is bundled at build time, so the site is a set of static files. The dataset lives in plain JSON files under data/, so adding a technology, an era or a domain is a pull…
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Interactive 3D map of the human tech tree, from the first stone tools to 2024: technologies stacked as a tower of eras in three.js, with prerequisite and relation edges, hover cards and a guided camera tour. All data lives in plain JSON, so adding a technology, era or domain is one pull request away.
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- 2026-09-21T05:28:58.000Z
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- 2026-09-27T03:14:14.000Z
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