How I Built a NASA-Style Name Generator with Next.js and Canvas API
Ever wondered what your name looks like from space? I built Your Name in Landsat — a web app that spells out any name or short phrase using real Landsat satellite imagery tiles shaped like alphabet letters. The Idea NASA's Landsat program has been capturing Earth observation data since 1972. Among the millions of satellite images, some natural and man-made features on Earth's surface happen to resemble letters of the alphabet. I thought it would be fun to collect these "letter tiles" and let peo
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3903347) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Knipper Mccarville Posted on Apr 29 How I Built a NASA-Style Name Generator with Next.js and Canvas API #react #webdev #javascript #opensource Ever wondered what your name looks like from space? I built Your Name in Landsat — a web app that spells out any name or short phrase using real Landsat satellite imagery tiles shaped like alphabet letters. The Idea NASA's Landsat program has been capturing Earth observation data since 1972.
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