为什么值得关注

它用类似物理仪器的交互方式让深时间变得可探索，拥有284个按历史变化密度分布的时间站点、55条策划旅程，并且采用无后端、无账号、注重隐私的架构。

适合谁使用

历史爱好者与在地探索学习者
教授或学习历史地理的教育者和学生
创意科技、AI 艺术与影像实验者
希望本地运行或扩展该项目的开发者

典型使用场景

在地图上落点并拨动年代与时刻，查看该地在不同历史时期的 AI 想象画面
使用 Hold & Compare 或空格键闪烁对比，在同一视图中擦除比较两个时代
一键体验55条策划旅程，例如普林尼航向维苏威火山或阿波罗11号离开发射台
为特定历史时刻生成带声音的短视频，用于写作、教学或视觉创作灵感

项目优势

无后端、无账号、无遥测；帧画面持久化到 IndexedDB，刷新后可免费恢复
284个时间站点按历史变化密度而非均等间隔排布，并支持直接输入年份
内置55条一键旅程，并提供多种可切换的静帧与视频生成模型
严格 CSP 将 connect-src 限制到 OpenRouter，降低用户密钥被无关依赖获取的风险

使用前须知

需要用户自备 OpenRouter API 密钥，拉下生成杆可能消耗额度或产生费用
生成结果是 AI 的想象性重建，不是经过验证的历史影像或档案资料
体验依赖第三方模型可用性、定价以及浏览器的 WebGL/IndexedDB 支持

README 快速开始

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        T H E   L O O K I N G   G L A S S   🪞👁️🪞
         EX LOCO, PER VITRUM, AD OMNE TEMPUS
        From Place, Through Glass, To All Time

                 FORTES FORTUNA IUVAT

THE LOOKING GLASS 🪞⧗

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it's not a time machine. i checked. but it does feel time-machine-adjacent! ⚡ point it anywhere on Earth, dial any year between the Great Dying and the year 3050, pick an hour of the day, and pull the lever.

THE LOOKING GLASS is a spatiotemporal image + video engine — a multidimensional viewer that develops an image of whatever was standing at that exact spot, in that exact year, at that exact hour. Then, if you want, it renders that frame as a short film with sound. One page. No backend. No account. Your key, your browser, your archive. 🐉

speculum — a mirror; also the surgical instrument for seeing into places light does not reach. this is that, pointed at the past.

👁️ WTF IS THIS

You know the feeling of standing somewhere old and trying to see it — the street before the street, the harbour before the concrete, the hill before the city? Your brain reaches for it and comes back with mush, because it has never been given anything to reach with.

This gives it something.

Drop a pin on the Bay of Naples. Spin the year back to AD 79. Nudge the sun to afternoon. Pull the lever.

And there it is: the deck of a Roman warship, refugees hauling themselves aboard from a skiff, other galleys standing off in the swell, ash coming down like dirty snow, and the mountain going up behind it all — Pliny the Elder sailing toward Vesuvius while every other hull in the bay ran the other way. 🌋

"Fortes" he said, "fortuna iuvat." Fortune favours the brave. He did not come back.

That line is at the top of this README. It was his first.

🔮 THE INSTRUMENT

The whole surface is one machined body, milled from a single billet and lit by one fixed lamp at 168°, seen through one seated optic. Nothing ships unless it is edge physics under that lamp, or a mark that read

项目描述

the looking glass — spatiotemporal image + video engine

GL4SS