The Newspaper Globe

LLM NEWSPAPER GLOBE · v5

Satirical AI news · One file · Morph Engine

A globe made of newspapers that eat themselves. Spin it.

From your file — canvas #stage is cursor:grab, dark #08060a with gold #d9b678. Two modes:

Single Globe:

• Newspaper texture globe with paper + ink. Globe renders newspaper articles onto sphere. Quality: Low (1.0) / Med (1.5) / High (2.0) / Ultra (2.6) — higher = sharper text, lower = smoother FPS
• View: Zoom 0.8-3.0, Auto-Rotate toggle, Pitch -80 to 80, Yaw -180 to 180, Reset
• Controls: drag rotate/pan, scroll zoom, Space morph, R reset, H panel, Tab mode switch

Cluster Mode:

• Countries as separate globes: 🇨🇳 China, 🇪🇺 EU, 🇬🇧 UK, 🇮🇳 India, 🇯🇵 Japan + more. Each has 5 satirical articles:
  • China: OPEN WEIGHTS MODEL MATCHES CLOSED LABS — "Weights published Tuesday. By Wednesday 40 fine-tunes..."
  • EU: AI ACT ENTERS INTO FORCE (AGAIN) — "It was already in force. It was in force twice."
  • UK: AI SAFETY INSTITUTE PUBLISHES REPORT — "Findings: models are fine, probably."
  • India: NEW FOUNDATION MODEL SUPPORTS 22 LANGUAGES — "Outperforms on Hindi, Tamil, Bengali. English speakers: alarmed."
  • Japan: CAREFUL MODEL SHIPS WITH SAFETY CARD — "Card lists phone number. Phone rings a person."
• Click country button → camera flies to baseX/baseY, targetZoom 1.1+, spawns random card from that country's headlines. Fit All / Center View buttons, cluster zoom 0.4-2.0

Cards + Morph Engine:

• Cards spawn right side, paper gradient #f2e8ca → #e8dcb8, left border #8b3a1a, Georgia serif. Section, title, 3-line clamped body, hint. Hover slides -4px. cardIn animation.
• Morph Engine: Morph One / Auto-Morph toggle, interval slider, auto morph triggers Math.random()<0.06 single / <0.08 cluster every second. Articles morph letter-by-letter, newspaper texture rebuilds.
• Paper / Ink toggles rebuild texture: buildTexture() + redrawAllClusterTextures()
• Cards Toggle On/Off, Clear All Cards
• FPS pill top-right, hintbar bottom with kbd hints

Intro: The Newspaper Globe — "Globe made of satirical AI news. One file."

Single HTML file, no deps, no trackers. v5.

DEVELOPER NOTES:

The Newspaper Globe is free to experience.