Move through space or time and changes will be narrated here.
2025
future lies
Display
Reading Moshi Moshi Explorer
A place in four dimensions. Every object has a lifespan; what you see depends on where you stand and which time mode you use.
Time modes
Slider
One year for the whole scene. Drag the timeline, or press Space to play.
Walk
Time follows your position. Walk towards the chosen compass direction to move forward in time; the gold dashes on the ground show the axis.
Time sphere
You are “now”. The further away something is, the further back in time you see it (years per metre). Approach a building and it ages forward; walk away and it un-ages. Invert to put the past close to you.
Provenance
Solid buildings are measured, sepia ones on grey scaffolds are projected from historic photos, grey massing models are inferred from footprints, and glowing wireframes are imagined. Click anything to see its sources.
Controls
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Slider, Walk, Time sphere
Space
Play / pause
WASD
Move (Shift = faster, Q/E = down/up)
Drag
Orbit, or look around in first person
F
Orbit ↔ first person
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Fewer / more years per metre
I
Invert the time sphere
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Step one year back / forward
H
This help
Esc
Close / deselect
Choose a location
Click the map to pick a point, or a gold marker for a saved location.
New points have no cached scene yet, so they open with synthetic data until the pipeline has run for them.