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That Day — Figma Makeathon Submission
🌍 What if you could see what the world was doing the moment you were born?
That Day is a cinematic, full-screen historical explorer built entirely in Figma Make. Enter any date. Tap a spot on a spinning 3D Earth. Discover the exact moment in history that happened that day — anywhere on the planet.
The Experience
The app unfolds in three acts — like a short film:
Act 1 — The Globe You land on a dark, cosmic screen. A photorealistic Earth spins slowly in space, surrounded by a Milky Way starfield with nebula clouds and shooting stars. Orbital rings drift around the planet. Type your birthday (or any date that matters to you).
Act 2 — You Choose the Place The globe pulses. A prompt appears: "Tap anywhere on Earth to reveal history." You drag, spin, and click — India, Berlin, the Moon, the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Wherever you tap, the coordinates track live in real-time.
What Makes It Special
🌐 Live Wikipedia API — every date pulls real historical events, not hardcoded data. Any date from 1000 AD to today works.
🌍 Hyper-realistic WebGL Earth — built with Three.js + custom GLSL shaders. Real NASA Blue Marble textures, city lights visible on the night side, cloud layer that drifts independently, atmospheric limb glow. Not a flat SVG — an actual 3D planet.
🌌 Cinematic space environment — Milky Way band, four spectral star types (blue-white, warm white, gold giants, red giants), nebula clouds, shooting stars, orbital rings with animated satellites.
⚡ Zero wait time — the Wikipedia fetch fires the moment you submit your date, so by the time your finger reaches the globe, the answer is already waiting.
The Feeling We Were Going For
"You didn't just arrive on a random Tuesday. The Berlin Wall had just fallen. The monsoon came early. Someone uploaded the first YouTube video. The world was doing something — and now you know what."
Try It
Enter your birthday. Tap anywhere on Earth. See what the world was up to.
It's different every time. Because history is.
Tools - Figma make
Built solo in Figma Make · Wikipedia-powered · WebGL rendered · Fully responsive Figma link - https://www.figma.com/make/jXQl5QIb7pF6CDtSDf2fBL/Cinematic-Historical-Moment-Explorer?t=WMVn1nn5MCQjTPa1-1
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