Credits
Sources and licenses.
The rooms, type and interface are original to this site. The photographic plates are built from openly licensed reference imagery. Every source is credited here, with its license and the files it appears in.
These photographs are reference imagery composited into the flight and the two windows. Airport names and codes in the experience are part of the story; they are not a claim that every frame was photographed at that airport.
- 01
San Francisco International Airport dusk, lights, fog DSC 0674
Used for
/flight/sfo-window.webpPhotographic reference for the Scene A dusk window; re-graded and composited behind the 3D glazing.
- 02
Barcelona Airport by night (46021906535)
Used for
/flight/airport-night.webpNight-airport reference used for Scene B's window backdrop; it is not labelled as Bao'an. The flight itself is modelled 3D geometry.
The plates are cropped, re-graded and composited derivatives. They are distributed under the same license as their source. Original source files are not redistributed from this site.
The two photographic window plates still used by the 3D rooms:
/flight/sfo-window.webp- SFO dusk window
/flight/airport-night.webp- Barcelona airport window
The two 3D rooms — the San Francisco studio and the Shenzhen NPI bench — were modelled, lit, rendered and assembled for this site. The geometry, set dressing, lighting, screen surfaces, paper props, maps and UI are original. Some environment textures, HDRIs and models are CC0 assets from Poly Haven (including the dusk and night sky HDRIs).
Aircraft — the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 models are from amvlab/aircraft-models, licensed CC BY 4.0. They are used unmodified apart from scaling, instancing, material emission and scene placement; both are the logo-free variants.
Hiking map — the Mount Tamalpais topographic map in the studio is a static mosaic of OpenTopoMap tiles, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, with map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Cropped and color-graded for the scene.
Scene A window — the room render
/scene/a-hero.webp and the live window backdrop are derived
from the SFO dusk photograph by wbaiv above: a keyed, re-graded distant
skyline over a generated dusk sky. The skyline is a photographic
backdrop; the aircraft, approach paths and airport lights are live 3D.
Scene B window — the room render
/scene/b-hero.webp and the live window backdrop are derived
from the Bao'an runway photograph by LN9267 above: cropped and
day-for-night graded, with the terminal, tower, floodlights and runway
lights built in 3D.
Screen interfaces — the EDA and factory displays are original HTML/CSS/SVG compositions built for the two rooms; no pixels from the reference products are embedded. Layout and information hierarchy were studied from the KiCad 9 PCB Editor documentation (docs.kicad.org, CC BY 3.0+), the FreeCAD screenshot gallery (wiki.freecad.org, CC BY 3.0), and the public product pages for Siemens Valor DFM, Yamaha iFactory and Aegis FactoryLogix (reference only, not redistributed). A CC0 Wikimedia Commons PCB photograph (Revox B215 Dolby board, CC0) informed the board texture; the rendered boards are procedural.
The legacy fallback plates under /public/plates/ are renders
of the same rooms and draw on the same two window sources.
The two room beds, the quiet radio bed and the flight cues are CC0 samples from Freesound, edited and looped for this site. CC0 does not require attribution; the sources are credited here anyway.
- 01
Not To Notice
Used for
/audio/lofi-radio-loop.mp3Ambient bed, slowed with pitch preserved and band-limited for the quiet radio treatment.
- 02
House Room Tone
Used for
/audio/studio-dusk-loop.mp3Quiet room tone at the base of the SF studio bed; filtered and looped.
- 03
Room tone traffic near window old house LON ON .flac
Used for
/audio/studio-dusk-loop.mp3Distant traffic window, mixed far under the studio room tone.
- 04
Workshop ambience
Used for
/audio/bench-night-loop.mp3Workshop machinery at the base of the Shenzhen bench bed; warmed, filtered and looped.
- 05
Airliner Flyby
Used for
/audio/airliner-flyby-loop.mp3/audio/flight-a2b.mp3/audio/flight-b2a.mp3Overhead pass excerpt used only during the flight, treated and looped seamlessly. The two directional cues are pitch-shifted, opposite stereo sweeps of the same pass.
Portrait — James Gong. Used for /portrait.jpg
and the author card on writing pages. All rights reserved.
Type — the site uses Instrument Serif, Instrument Sans, JetBrains Mono, Fredoka, Nunito and Space Mono, all under the SIL Open Font License. Type placement and the interface are original.
Code and 3D — the Astro site, React/Three.js engine, Blender scenes and all interface copy were made for this project. The flight sequence and camera moves are original work.
A credit is missing or wrong? Email me and I will correct it.