Drowning Berlin

The Island of Berlin is an endeavour to visualize how Berlin could last effected yesteryear ascension ocean levels. The visualization provides a dramatic (if non precisely accurate) model of how global warming could lawsuit Berlin.

The Island of Berlin uses WebGL to exercise a 3D model of Berlin. The model depicts Berlin equally surrounded yesteryear a vast sea. Using the slide command you lot tin enhance the marking of this ocean to thought which areas of Berlin would stay higher upward H2O at dissimilar ocean levels.

Obviously Berlin is non on the transcend of a mountain. It thus does non bring a significantly higher elevation than the surface area surrounding the city. The Island of Berlin thus does exercise an overly dramatic visualization. Under close models of ascension ocean levels Berlin volition non halt upward an isle surrounded yesteryear a vast sea. Therefore this type of visualization would move a lot amend using an actual island, for lawsuit Reunion Island.

Hans Hack's map of Berlin was inspired yesteryear Nicolas Durou's Maquette. Maquette is a WebGL 3D model of Reunion Island inwards the Indian Ocean. This 3D model besides allows you lot to adapt ocean levels to visualize how the isle could last effected yesteryear global warming. The Maquette model includes a population layer which is able to render an estimation of the divulge of people on the isle who would last effected yesteryear dissimilar levels of ascension seas.