Independent build · Interactive exhibit

Pipeline Wave Lab

An interactive 3D museum exhibit on how a North Pacific winter storm becomes the Pipeline barrel on Oʻahu’s North Shore.

Independent build, not client work.

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Best in a desktop browser with the sound on. On a phone, watch the short video below.

Who it’s for

Curious visitors. Each idea has a plain explanation and a science one.

What it shows

Virtual engagement: a narrated tour
Multimedia: 3D, voice and captions
Code: JavaScript and three.js

How it was made, and where AI was used

I built it in JavaScript with three.js, using AI coding tools, and narrated the ten-step tour in a clone of my own voice made with Voicebox. Ground and coastline come from USGS elevation and OpenStreetMap data. The reef is stylized. Visitors can take the 2.5-minute tour, surf it themselves or open the glossary.

A wave breaking over the reef ledge in a 3D model, with a surfer in the barrel and the tour's caption bar below. — Step 8 of the tour: the ledge throws the barrel, at quarter speed.

A map table of the North Pacific with a storm spiral off the Kuril Islands, swell arcs moving toward Oʻahu and a line marking the distance. — Step 4 of the tour: swell crossing the North Pacific from the storm to Oʻahu.

A 56-second excerpt with sound: steps 1, 4, 7 and 8 of the ten-step tour.

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