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Gamelab: MMS4 2.0

Originally published 2026-10-07 on Advisory Hour.

Originally published as an Advisory Hour Substack post on 2026-10-07. This first-party site copy preserves the text, localizes public supporting media, and connects the record to its project trail.

Original post

Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.
Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.

The first experience around MMS4 emerged during the Summer into AI competition in which I provided instructions to the competitors on how to think about building a more fully-featured threeJS experience. (Link to this story at the end.)

The rebuild of that project pulled together the new techniques I’ve written about over the last few weeks to build… something entirely new. It’s beautiful.

The cutscene opener is jaw-dropping.

Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.
Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.
Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.
Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.

The data itself is sourced from data.gov. This is real data put into very real visualizations. If you work at NASA, drop me a message if you get a kick out of this or have some corrections I should roll in!

The magnetic field map is spectacular.

Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.
Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.
Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.
Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.

The shield effect and magnetic trace lines are without a doubt going to find their way into a future project. This may just look like pixels in a screenshot-however each pixel is moving.

Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.
Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.

There’s a lot more covered on my site about this one. Learn more about the data, the earth and the sun than you ever dared imagine.

Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.
Gamelab: MMS4 2.0 image from the original Advisory Hour post.

Play: https://ericrhea.com/gamelab/projects/mms4v2/

Read more: https://ericrhea.com/gamelab/mms4v2.html

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