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WebGL Water

Made by Evan Wallace

This demo requires a decent graphics card and up-to-date drivers. If you can't run the demo, you can still see it on YouTube .

Interactions:

• Draw on the water to make ripples
• Drag the background to rotate the camera
• Press SPACEBAR to pause and unpause
• Drag the sphere to move it around
• Press the L key to set the light direction
• Press the G key to toggle gravity
• Raytraced reflections and refractions
• Analytic ambient occlusion
• Heightfield water simulation *
• Soft shadows
• Caustics (see this for details) **

* requires the OES_texture_float extension ** requires the OES_standard_derivatives extension

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20+ WebGL Experiments That Are Just Wow!

Behold, for a great tool with great promises is coming to your eyes. It is fast and smooth. It renders 3D, and with integration it animates, guess what it is? HTML5 ? CSS3 ? No, it’s called WebGL, a software library that extends the capability of the JavaScript to generate interactive 3D graphics, and yes, without any plugins!

In this showcase, we don’t want to show you the regular things. We want to showcase to you 30 WebGL experiment s that are carefully crafted by professional developers for you to witness the true might of the WebGL which are not only inspiring but also let you have a glimpse about how the future of the web might look like. Jump into the future after click!

You are strongly recommended to view these demos using the latest version of Developer version of Google Chrome . Most demos support the latest version of Firefox , Google Chrome and Safari , though.

3 Dreams of Black

Authored by Google Data Arts Team, 3 Dreams of Black brings you into 3 dream worlds constructed through a combination of rich 2D drawings and animations interwoven with interactive 3D sequences. Check out the wonders for wonderful experience!

Animated Volume Particles

This one is really artistic – animated animals constructed by 3D particles using float textures and frame buffer objects. More surprise if you move the mouse!

Simulate an underwater environment? That’s not a problem for WebGL. The demo features 3D models with high quality textures, scene animation, pixel shader animation, reflections, refraction and caustics, just everything to put up the realistic underwater scene!

Azathioprine

Probably the most epic WebGL demo, enough said. Hat tip to the author Jochen Wilhelmy.

Attractors Trip

If you wanna experience the 3D this is the best demo for you, also get meditated with the immense beauty of WebGL-generated graphics using Martin’s Hopalong formula.

“Procedural modeling done with Side FX Houdini. Exported with a Python exporter into json format. Texture painted using Autodesk Mudbox. Animated with a vertex shader.”

Materials: Cars

Bugatti Veyron, Lamborghini Gallardo, Ferrari F50 and Chevrolet Camaro in your browser. Pick your ride and enjoy the view. Heck, you can even choose their colors.

The future of the Need For Speed series will be in web browser. Too ambitious? Certainly not if you have visited these cars that are rendered with dynamic cube maps, shadow maps and postprocessing effects.

How about a 3D Pac-Man game? The graphic & gameplay are nice, and most importantly it’s fun!

Best example of how simple graphics and animation can impress people when they are done right.

Check out the Surface, an elegant and inspiring experiment made by Paul Lewis. You can not only change the magnitude, elasticity, auto orbit, wireframe, and raindrops in the demo, but also drag-and-drop your own images into it to feel the effect differently.

Photo Particles

Just drop your favorite image into this demo and enjoy watching it explode into a ton of particles and get interacted with some form of magnetism. The experiment is a combination of four technologies: HTML5’s Drag and Drop, File API, Canvas and WebGL.

Rutt-Etra-Izer

Rutt-Etra-Izer is a WebGL emulation of the classic Rutt-Etra video synthesizer. The demo allows you to put your own images inside and manipulate them. With this stuff, a 2D image can even look like a 3D!

The Wobble Dance

A simple yet noteworthy demo that shows how liquid the WebGL can be, with anisotropic light shader and wobble vertex deformation.

Another great experiment showcasing the potential of the WebGL. Nouvelle Vague offers a poetic and interactive real-time 3D experience based on Twitter , and what you see will be tweets that are carried out with different flying objects. Certainly an artistic way to enjoy the tweets.

Impressive app done by Daniel Pettersson that allows you to apply multiple simultaneous postprocessing effects to a Happy Feet 2 trailer. Try and have fun!

Voxels Liquid

3D representation of the classic 2D water effect algorithm, also shows you how interactive WebGL is.

WebGL Bookcase

Browse over 10,000 book covers with this WebGL Bookcase, developed by the Google Data Arts Team. You can also search by subject, open a 3D model of each by clicking it, and download books on your phone with the QR code .

WebGL Globe

A cool Google team’s experiment that actually makes you feel like you’re in the future with its beautiful, elegant and futuristic data visualization .

World Flights

Another visual-appealing data visualization app that visualizes major airlines flight routes, looks promising!

WebGL Image Filter

Graphic editor application with WebGL? It’s never impossible. Best of all, it’s fast and smooth!

WebGL Water

“A pool of water rendered with reflection, refraction, caustics, and ambient occlusion. The pool is simulated with a heightfield and contains a sphere that can interact with the water’s surface.”

The biggest issue that WebGL faced, is perhaps its security. According to the Wikipedia , the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued the warning that WebGL contains multiple possible security issues which might lead to arbitrary code execution, denial of service and even cross-domain attacks. This means very, very much to the website’s owner.

However, the Khronos Group which includes Mozilla and Google has been suggesting possible solutions and future development approach to strengthen the security against the possible security threats.

Hopefully the issues can be decreased and even be solved in the future, as the WebGL has so many possibilities as showcased by the talented and professional developers!

Let us know which experiment amazes you the most, and of course, show off to us if you got one!

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10 Cool Chrome Experiments You Should Try

1. The Searching Planet

Check out the experiment here .

2. 100,000 Stars

3. Kandinsky

Yet another Google creation, Kandinsky is a part of Google’s Chrome Music Lab: a chrome experiment aimed at teaching kids more about music compositions, harmonics and things related to sound. The Chrome Music Lab contains a lot of experiments aimed at increasing the user’s knowledge in a variety of sound related domains, ranging from music composition, to sound waves and harmonics.

4. Virtual Reality

5. 3D Periodic Table

6. Interstellar Endurance Exploration

Remember the Endurance ship from Interstellar ? Warner Bros., Xymatic & AvatarLabs co-created a Chrome experiment where the users can move around and explore the Endurance inside their web browsers. While the experiment is not too exciting, and not much happens inside the Endurance while the user is there, it definitely is something worth a try, especially for people who are very interested in exploring the Endurance far beyond what the movie showed.

7. WebGL Water

The scene is completely interactive, and even includes accurate raytraced reflections and refractions, analytic ambient occlusion, heightfield water simulation, Soft shadows and Caustics. The experiment goes to show just how powerful JavaScript and WebGL technologies are.

8. The Wilderness Downtown

• It uses multiple browser windows that are choreographed together to show different content in a way that it flows together and looks very cool.
• It uses the Google Street View and Maps API. These are used to tailor the short film to the user’s locality. The experiment actually shows street view images from the user’s neighbourhood (or city), in a way that it looks tied into the film itself.

Check out the experiment here .

9. Browser Ball

10. Cube Slam

Yet another experiment created by Google, Cube Slam is a pong-like game where you have to disable the shields on the opponent’s side. Now, this might not sound exciting enough, but Cube Slam adds another awesome feature to the game. Users can play this game over the internet with their friends , and the game actually displays their friend’s webcam feed on the screen while they play, giving the impression of actually playing face to face against your friend, which makes the entire experience a lot more fun.

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Oh, the Possibilities with Chrome Experiments!

I was playing around the other day and wandered across the Chrome Experiments website . The next time I looked up, four hours had passed. That’s how unbelievable this site is.

What Is It?

Chrome Experiments is an open-source project started by Google in 2009 to showcase web-based technologies like JavaScript, HTML5, WebGL, Canvas, and more. It’s now become an open source community where developers can submit their own projects. While all of that is great, what makes it so amazing, at least to me, is the fact that just a few years ago, we would have had to have separate software pieces for each of these experiments. Today, they can all be run in the same Chrome browser software that we use to search the web and do email.

The experiments are available to everyone. There are more than 100 projects, with more being added every day. You can filter them by date, popularity, and technology, which makes it easy to get lost in the sheer wonder of what smart people can do with innovative technology.

What Makes Chrome Experiments So Amazing?

Past experiments that have gone on to have a life of their own and that you may have heard about or used yourself include the Zygote Body , a detailed 3D model of the human body;  Google Gravity , where what goes up must come down;  Chrome Music Lab , which is a wonderful way for children to learn all about music (a site that I liked so much I wrote a separate blog about it ); and Browser Talk , where your browser takes on a persona and talks to you. But they are eclipsed by some of the new creations coming out of the site. I’ll share just a few of my favorites with you:

• 100,000 Stars shows you the real location of nearby stars. You can zoom in and out and see some pretty neat visualizations of space and distance. The music playing in the background is also great.
• Typatone creates music while you type. Once you’re done typing, it puts the notes selected by your keystrokes into a beautiful song. (I must confess to playing with this one for a long time!) Downloading a song costs $0.99. But you can embed the song into a website at no charge.
• WebGL Water Simulation allows you to play with the properties of water. You can cause ripples and waves, move a sphere in and out, and much more. I found this so fascinating that it led me to doing research on how waves function. A similar experiment is Fluid Particles .
• Ancient Earth provides a way of looking at how the physical features of the Earth have changed over millions of years. The site includes a ton of information about each age and makes it easy to jump to different time periods or events, like the first coral reefs or dinosaurs. This experiment really helped me better understand the evolution of the Earth over time, making a complex subject simpler.
• Inspirograph is just like the old toy that I played with as a child. Using different sized gears, you can create wonderful artwork.
• Webcam Toy has more than 70 filters that you can apply to photos you take with your webcam. I can easily see this being used by students to create avatars of themselves or just to express mood for a particular piece of writing.

• And finally, there’s the Peanut Gallery . Strange as it sounds, this experiment lets you create silent film clips with your voice. Select from a set of classic film clips and then add your own voiceover, which is turned automatically into text on the screen. This was so much fun! But I can also see it being used by students to create summaries of learning, creative book trailers, and more.

Do yourself a favor and spend some time playing and learning with the Chrome Experiments. But if you do, make sure you don’t have anything scheduled for several hours.

Lori Gracey

Lori Gracey currently serves as the executive director of the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) and is responsible for training technology directors, administrators, curriculum supervisors, librarians, and teachers across the country. Since 2009, she has led TCEA in membership and revenue growth, helped to pay off their building and purchase a new, larger building, and implemented new conferences, partnerships with other associations, and professional development opportunities for members and non-members. She serves more than 75,000 members and oversees a staff of 20. Lori has served on the board of the Texas Society of Association Executives and SXSWedu, and she has served as the Regional Program Chair for the ISTE 2017 and 2021 Convention in San Antonio. Lori has 28 years of experience in education, with 22 years as a curriculum and technology director.

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37 Water Science Experiments: Fun & Easy

We’ve curated a diverse selection of water related science experiments suitable for all ages, covering topics such as density, surface tension, water purification, and much more.

These hands-on, educational activities will not only deepen your understanding of water’s remarkable properties but also ignite a passion for scientific inquiry.

So, grab your lab coat and let’s dive into the fascinating world of water-based science experiments!

Water Science Experiments

1. walking water science experiment.

This experiment is a simple yet fascinating science experiment that involves observing the capillary action of water. Children can learn a lot from this experiment about the characteristics of water and the capillary action phenomenon. It is also a great approach to promote scientific curiosity and enthusiasm.

Learn more: Walking Water Science Experiment

2. Water Filtration Experiment

A water filtering experiment explains how to purify contaminated water using economical supplies. The experiment’s goal is to educate people about the procedure of water filtration, which is crucial in clearing water of impurities and contaminants so that it is safe to drink.

Learn more: Water Filtration Experiment

3. Water Cycle in a Bag

The water cycle in a bag experiment became to be an enjoyable and useful instructional exercise that helps students understand this idea. Participants in the experiment can observe the many water cycle processes by building a model of the water cycle within a Ziplock bag.

4. Cloud in a Jar

The rain cloud in a jar experiment is a popular instructional project that explains the water cycle and precipitation creation. This experiment is best done as a water experiment since it includes monitoring and understanding how water changes state from a gas (water vapor) to a liquid (rain) and back to a gas.

Learn more: Cloud in a Jar

5. The Rising Water

The rising water using a candle experiment is a wonderful way to teach both adults and children the fundamentals of physics while also giving them an exciting look at the properties of gases and how they interact with liquids.

6. Leak Proof Bag Science Experiment

In the experiment, a plastic bag will be filled with water, and after that, pencils will be inserted through the bag without causing it to leak.

The experiments explain how the plastic bag’s polymer chains stretch and form a barrier that keeps water from dripping through the holes the pencils have produced.

Learn more: Leak Proof Bag Science Experiment

7. Keep Paper Dry Under Water Science Experiment

The experiment is an enjoyable way for demonstrating air pressure and surface tension for both adults and children. It’s an entertaining and engaging technique to increase scientific curiosity and learn about scientific fundamentals.

Learn more: Keep Paper Dry Under Water Science Experiment

8. Frozen Water Science Experiment

The Frozen Water Science Experiment is a fun and engaging project that teaches about the qualities of water and how it behaves when frozen.

You can gain a better knowledge of the science behind the freezing process and investigate how different variables can affect the outcome by carrying out this experiment.

9. Make Ice Stalagmites

10. Bending of Light

A fascinating scientific activity that explores visual principles and how light behaves in different surfaces is the “bending of light” water experiment. This experiment has applications in physics, engineering, and technology in addition to being a fun and interesting method to learn about the characteristics of light.

11. Salt on a Stick

This experiment is an excellent way to catch interest, engage in practical learning, and gain a deeper understanding of the characteristics of water and how they relate to other substances. So the “Salt on Stick” water experiment is definitely worth trying if you’re looking for a fun and educational activity to try!

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12. Separating Mixture by Evaporation

This method has practical applications in fields like water processing and is employed in a wide range of scientific disciplines, from chemistry to environmental science.

You will better understand the principles determining the behavior of mixtures and the scientific procedures used to separate them by performing this experiment at home.

13. Dancing Spaghetti

Have you ever heard of the dancing spaghetti experiment? It’s a fascinating science experiment that combines simple materials to create a mesmerizing visual display.

The dancing spaghetti experiment is not only entertaining, but it also helps you understand the scientific concepts of chemical reactions, gas production, and acidity levels.

14. Magic Color Changing Potion

The magic color-changing potion experiment with water, vinegar, and baking soda must be tried since it’s an easy home-based scientific experiment that’s entertaining and educational.

This experiment is an excellent way to teach kids about chemical reactions and the characteristics of acids and bases while providing them an interesting and satisfying activity.

15. Traveling Water Experiment

In this experiment, you will use simple objects like straws or strings to make a path for water to pass between two or more containers.

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16. Dry Erase and Water “Floating Ink” Experiment

The dry-erase and water “floating ink” experiment offers an interesting look at the characteristics of liquids and the laws of buoyancy while also being a great method to educate kids and adults to the fundamentals of science.

Learn more: Dry Erase and Water Floating Ink Experiment

17. Underwater Candle

In this experiment, we will investigate a connection between fire and water and learn about the remarkable factors of an underwater candle.

18. Static Electricity and Water

19. Tornado in a Glass

This captivating experiment will demonstrate how the forces of air and water can combine to create a miniature vortex, resembling a tornado.

Learn more: Tornado in a Glass

20. Make Underwater Magic Sand

Be ready to build a captivating underwater world with the magic sand experiment. This experiment will examine the fascinating characteristics of hydrophobic sand, sometimes referred to as magic sand.

21. Candy Science Experiment

Get ready to taste the rainbow and learn about the science behind it with the Skittles and water experiment! In this fun and colorful experiment, we will explore the concept of solubility and observe how it affects the diffusion of color.

Density Experiments

Density experiments are a useful and instructive approach to learn about the characteristics of matter and the fundamentals of science, and they can serve as a starting point for further exploration into the fascinating world of science.

Density experiments may be carried out with simple materials that can be found in most homes.

This experiment can be a great hands-on learning experience for kids and science lovers of all ages.

22. Super Cool Lava Lamp Experiment

The awesome lava lamp experiment is an entertaining and educational activity that illustrates the concepts of density and chemical reactions. With the help of common household items, this experiment involves making a handmade lava lamp.

Learn more: Lava Lamp Science Experiment

23. Denser Than you Think

Welcome to the fascinating world of density science! The amount of matter in a particular space or volume is known as density, and it is a fundamental concept in science that can be seen everywhere around us.

Understanding density can help us figure out why some objects float while others sink in water, or why certain compounds do not mix.

24. Egg Salt and Water

Learn about the characteristics of water, including its density and buoyancy, and how the addition of salt affects these characteristics through performing this experiment.

25. Hot Water and Cold-Water Density

In this experiment, hot and cold water are put into a container to see how they react to one other’s temperatures and how they interact.

Sound and Water Experiments

Have you ever wondered how sound travels through different mediums? Take a look at these interesting sound and water experiments and learn how sounds and water can affect each other.

26. Home Made Water Xylophone

You can do this simple scientific experiment at home using a few inexpensive ingredients to create a handmade water xylophone.

The experiment demonstrates the science of sound and vibration and demonstrates how changing water concentrations can result in a range of tones and pitches.

Learn more: Home Made Water Xylophone

27. Create Water Forms Using Sound!

A remarkable experiment that exhibits the ability of sound waves to influence and impact the physical world around us is the creation of water formations using sound.

In this experiment, sound waves are used to generate patterns and shapes, resulting in amazing, intricate designs that are fascinating to observe.

28. Sound Makes Water Come Alive 

These experiments consist of using sound waves to create water vibrations, which can result in a variety of dynamic and captivating phenomena.

29. Water Whistle

The water whistle experiment includes blowing air through a straw that is submerged in water to produce a whistle.

This experiment is an excellent way to learn about the characteristics of sound waves and how water can affect them.

Water Surface Tension Experiments

You can observe the effects of surface tension on the behavior of liquids by conducting a surface tension experiment.

By trying these experiments, you can gain a better understanding of the properties of liquids and their behavior and how surface tension affects their behavior.

30. Floating Paperclip

In this experiment, you will put a paper clip on the top of the water and observe it float because of the water’s surface tension.

31. Water Glass Surface Tension

Have you ever noticed how, on some surfaces, water drops may form perfect spheres? The surface tension, which is a characteristic of water and the cohesive force that holds a liquid’s molecules together at its surface, is to blame for this.

32. Camphor Powered Boat

The camphor-powered boat experiment is a fun and fascinating way to explore the principles of chemistry, physics, and fluid mechanics. In this experiment, a miniature boat is used to travel across the water’s surface using camphor tablets.

33. Pepper and Soap Experiment

The pepper in a cloud experiment is a simple and interesting activity that explains the concept of surface tension. This experiment includes adding pepper to a bowl of water and then pouring soap to the mixture, causing the pepper to move away from the soap.

Learn more: Pepper and Soap Experiment

Boiling Water Experiments

Experiments with boiling water are an engaging and informative way to learn about physics, chemistry, and water’s characteristics.

These investigations, which include examining how water behaves when it changes temperature and pressure, can shed light on a variety of scientific phenomena.

It’s important to take the proper safety measures when performing experiments with hot water. Boiling water can produce steam and hot particles that are dangerous to inhale in and can result in severe burns if it comes into contact with skin.

34. Make It Rain

This experiment can be accomplished using basic supplies that can be found in most homes, make it an excellent opportunity for hands-on learning for both kids and science lovers.

Learn more: Make it Rain

35. Fire Water Balloons

Learning about the fundamentals of thermodynamics, the behavior of gases, and the effects of heat on objects are all made possible by this experiment.

36. Boil Water with Ice

The Boiling Water with Ice experiment is an engaging and beneficial approach to learn about temperature and the behavior of water. It can also serve as an introduction for further discovery into the wonderful world of science.

37. Boil Water in a Paper Cup

The “boil water in a cup” experiment is an easier but powerful approach to illustrate the idea of heat transmission by conduction. This experiment is often used in science classes to teach students about thermal conductivity and the physics of heat transfer.

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1,000 Chrome Experiments and counting...

Posted by Valdean Klump , Data Arts Team

Originally posted to the Google Chrome blog

In 2009 , we launched Chrome Experiments to showcase the work of creative coders who pushed HTML5 and JavaScript to the limits in order to build beautiful, unique web experiences. At first, the site had only 19 experiments, but we hoped they would be a source of inspiration for programmers who made art with open web technologies. Since then, we’ve been humbled by the quantity and quality of new submissions. Today, we’ve reached a major milestone: 1,000 experiments.

To celebrate, we’ve created a special Experiment #1000 that visualizes every other experiment on the site. You can explore all 1,000 in a variety of ways, including a real-time code editor and a timeline with selectable tags. Click on the WebGL tag, for example, and you’ll see how that technology surged in popularity when it was added to Chrome in 2011.

Along with Experiment #1000, we’ve redesigned ChromeExperiments.com using Polymer . It’s mobile-friendly, so no matter what kind of phone or tablet you have, or how you hold it, the site scales smoothly. If you’re on your phone, you can also filter the list to mobile-compatible experiments by selecting the Mobile tag .

Looking back at the old experiments this month has been a joy. Highlights include Mr.doob’s classic Ball Pool (one of the original 19 experiments), the first WebGL experiment by Gregg Tavares (try 4,000 fish – this used to be very slow!), and Dinahmoe’s multiplayer audio toy Plink , which combines the Web Audio API with Node.js . At Google I/O in 2012, we released the first mobile experiments, including AlteredQualia’s Multitouch Toy and Dominic Szablewski’s X-Type . And each year afterward, new web technologies appeared, like getUserMedia and the Web Speech API . It’s been a wonderful journey.

Thank you to everyone who has supported the site, and most of all to the creators who have shared their work. We’re excited see what experiments you come up with next.

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Now, after several years of innovation and development, there are hundreds of Experiments from eager developers around the world who would have never been able to share their projects otherwise. Whether you want to pass the time, employ your thinking muscles, or amaze your eyes, these Chrome Experiments have something for you. We’ve collected our favorites.

A word about compatibility : Experiments generally remain compatible as long as you are using a Chrome browser or mobile device – that’s one of the benefits of these fun little programs. However, that’s not always guaranteed. Most Experiments have a “Technology” section you may want to glance at if you encounter any problems. The list may include technology that your current device or setup doesn’t support: Keep Chrome updated to help with this. Also, keep in mind that some Experiments are made to only work on a mobile Chrome platform.

Music and visual

Patatap provides a sound kit on all devices that responds to sound selections by producing moving shapes. Tap your screen or keyboard in various places to create and combine different sounds, then watch the basic color-and-shape animations follow suit as you make your own music video. The color palette and soundscape options can be switched at any time. Whether you are trying to distract kids or yourself, it’s a good choice.

Plink is an incredibly innovative music experience that musicians and music-lovers of all kinds will enjoy – often together. It’s a multiplayer tool that allows you to create various musical riffs by moving your mouse – but the real fun comes when connected to three different people online. Here, you can use three different effects as one to create a whole jamming session worth of potentially awesome tunes.

Virtual Art Sessions

This one is a bit difficult to describe, but absolutely worth the experience. It’s a virtual reality documentary of sorts, except it also takes place in a virtual 3D world. The piece is divided into six sections with six artists composing works. You can pan, rotate, and zoom in any direction to watch all of them working at once, and – look, we said it was hard to describe. But if you have any interest in tech or VR, you owe it to yourself to try this out.

The Wilderness Downtown

Even people who have no idea what Chrome Experiments are often recognize Wilderness Downtown, one of the first major Experiments, and certainly the first big success. Back in 2010, this little interactive film went viral, quickly becoming one of the must-have web experiences of the time. It uses the song We Used to Wait by Arcade Fire, and creates a beautiful music video that channels through multiple Chrome windows while also pulling information about your childhood neighborhood from Maps. The result…well, if you haven’t tried it yet, you need to.

Square Mirror

There are a ton of cam-based visual Experiments, but we like this one for its unique take on the genre: It uses your webcam to replicate images in a vast jumble of colored squares – something both fun and quietly disturbing. If you like it, we highly suggest Paint Mirror and Stretch Mirror, which are by the same creator and also hit that mid-point between creepy and beautiful.

Video Puzzle

While it’s technically a kind of game, the value of Video Puzzle comes from its fascinating visuals. The Experiment automatically forms a puzzle out of a video, while that video is playing. It challenges you to keep track of what’s happening in the video at all times. This interesting take on puzzles is particularly fun for kids, and effortlessly shows off what Chrome can do with a little thought.

The Peanut Gallery

Start with a silent film clip from the early days of Hollywood. Speak along with the scenes however you choose. Have your speech automatically converted into text and shown as classic silent film intertitles. Now, share with friends. This is the essence of Peanut Gallery, and the results can be remarkably hilarious. Try it at a party, or use it when everyone is having a boring day.

Design, Games, and Science

Webgl water simulation.

The idea is simple: You have a digital pool of water. Now play with it. This quickly yields both an entertaining distraction and an impressive lesson in 3D effects as you bob a sphere and see how it changes both the rippling water and the light reflecting from above. Not only does it show what Chrome is capable of, it’s also surprisingly soothing, in a bath-time kind of way.

Generative Machines

Soothing in a very different way, this program…well, it generates machines. Specifically, it uses an exploding view trick that allows you to pull super-weird machine puzzles apart and push them back together at will. Laugh at the crazy engineering – or try to see if any of it actually works.

This is an advanced, Lego-ish game that allows you to pick from a number of brick shapes and attach them to create your own elaborate 3D models. It’s not quite Minecraft, but it is an excellent way to use your imagination in a casual way, and some of the results can resemble true masterpieces.

PlanetMaker

One of the more beautiful Experiments, PlanetMaker challenges you to turn earth into a completely different planet by tweaking the light, atmosphere, weather and more. You can even upload your own graphics to play around with different possibilities. It’s super fun for the sci-fi fan – and the other Experiments by Kevin Gill are similarly fascinating, and well worth exploring.

Hydra is, at its heart, a digital shadow maker. You choose from 101 different shapes, and use them to create various shadows against a white background. The goal is to create “hydras” or monster shapes with the tools provided. Kids can utilize their imaginations, and adults can join in on the fun as well. Remember to save your hydras with a funny name for maximum effect.

It’s a super simple game, but it can still stave off boredom: This Experiment generates a bunch of balls in your Chrome window. You can pull and drop the balls however you want to see if you can create more. Moving the window can also shove and tip the balls. This works a little better on mobile devices, but it’s amusing either way.

A Dark Room

Do you miss the simple days of text adventures – or did you never get a chance to try them out? A Dark Room is a free, minimalistic journey in the style of old-time, interactive text stories and quests. Use your imagination, type in your responses, and survive the dark room!

Out of all the Chrome Experiment games, this is the most innovative we’ve seen. It’s made to work across Chrome-compatible mobile devices so you can play with nearby friends. Each person gets a piece of the racetrack, and the phones must be held together the right way to complete the track and avoid crashes. Anyone can accelerate the car by tapping their screen. It doesn’t always work right, but it is always fun.

GeoGuessr is a well-made geographical quiz game with an amazing twist: Instead of just giving you clues about a location, it uses mapping technology to effectively drop you on a random street corner in the world: Using streetviews and deduction, can you work out where you are? There are multiple modes for a variety of landmarks and location types.

Look for a more traditional type of game? Check out X-Type, which is your basic spaceship shooter, except that it can run on a Chrome browser. It’s also a real challenge with endless boss battles and an infinite increase in difficulty.

BioDigital Human

We have to hand it to the BioDigital Team, this interactive tool is way more impressive than any textbook. Using over 3,000 models (all peer reviewed for accuracy), the program lets you take a tour through every part of the human body – and that’s just the start. You can dissect, create cross-sections, search for specific data relationships, and a whole lot more. Unless you’re dealing with an actual cadaver, it’s one of the best ways to study the human body in 3D.

The WebGL Globe

Tapping into the growing GIS (geographic information system) market, this nifty Experiment is an open source program that allows people to upload various types of geographical data over the entire world. Viewers can then use various color gradients and visualizations to view them – making it a great tool for research and presentations covering anything from Bitcoin activities to meteorite landings.

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Whether you love or hate Google Chrome , it has changed the way we browse the Web. Firefox has already adopted many of its traits, and Microsoft is set to do the same with its new Spartan browser launching alongside Windows 10.

Google has promoted programming languages associated with the Web, and pushed coders to take advantage of JavaScript and HTML5 in new, and often exciting, ways. Over 1,000 Chrome experiments have now been posted online, and we're here to look at 10 that stand out from the crowd.

Google Chrome Experiments

Google has been showcasing the best Web pioneers on the Chrome Experiments website since 2009. Six years (and counting) later, and the number of Chrome experiments live on the site has passed 1,000. Chrome Experiment #1000 being a tool designed to help you organize and discover the other 999 experiments.

This gave us the perfect opportunity to browse through the 1,000-plus Chrome experiments in order to pick out 10 of the very best that everybody reading this should try for themselves. The majority are fun games, but all are examples of what a modern Web browser is capable of in this day and age.

Video Puzzle

Video Puzzle is a jigsaw puzzle with a difference, as you move pieces of a video around while it's playing in real-time. The puzzles aren't exactly hard, but they do at least offer a different challenge than regular jigsaws.

Multiplayer Piano

Multiplayer Piano offers you the chance to play a virtual keyboard with other people online. At the same time. Which is both annoying and mesmerizing at the same time. Thankfully, you can also choose to play by yourself when the mood takes you.

X-Type is an old-school shooter which sees you controlling a tiny spaceship trying to survive and thrive when pitched against enemy ships much bigger in size. The name is no mere coincidence, as X-Type takes its cue from R-Type.

Mecabricks is a giant box of virtual LEGO you can play with to your heart's content. Choose the blocks and pieces, place them on the board, and let your creativity run wild. Build with Chrome is probably better, but there's something endearing about this effort.

Silk only offers a very short-lived diversion, but it's still a Chrome experiment you shouldn't miss. You simply draw a pattern with your mouse or finger, and the program does the rest, leaving you as the creator of some beautiful, detailed art.

Cube is a WebGL-based game designed to promote Google Maps . But as it's a lot of fun to play, we can accept the promotional nature with open arms. There are eight levels to complete, and when you reach the end you should have learned something. Which is a bonus.

GeoGuessr is a rather addictive little game that tests your knowledge of geography . You get dropped in a random place (via Google Street View) and asked to pinpoint your location on a world map. It's a lot tougher than it looks, because much of the world looks very similar.

Racer is, as its name suggests, an old-school racing game which sees you competing with friends on your mobile devices. You line your phones and/or tablets up to form the racetrack, which makes the whole thing much more difficult than you would expect.

X-Wing sees you piloting an X-Wing from Star Wars (naturally) through what looks like the trench run of the Death Star. Even the music is there to add a touch of realism to the whole thing, which will thrill geeks of all stripes despite the decidedly retro graphics.

Inspirograph

Spirograph is, as if you couldn't guess, a virtual version of Spirograph. Younger readers may not have any clue what Spirograph is, but this virtual version does a great job of imitating the ability of the real-life toy to create amazing geometric patterns quickly and simply.

Continue the Conversation

We think this is a strong list of Chrome experiments that are well worth a second look. There are plenty of others worth trying too, and there are more being added all the time. So, we recommend you bookmarking the Google Chrome Experiments website for future reference. It's never too late to add your voice to the discussion.

Please continue the conversation in the comments section below. While some of you took part in the original discussion, there is always room for more opinions. Do you agree with the Chrome experiments selected for the list? If not, then please add your own suggestions to the conversation happening below. Remember, there are no right or wrong answers here, just opinions.

A Debt of Gratitude (Kinda)

In order to compile this list of Google Chrome Experiments you really need to try, we asked for help from the MakeUseOf community. Unfortunately, for once, our readers let us down. Boo! Hiss! But we still love you all. Just about.

However, this does mean we cannot thank readers by name, so I'll personally take the opportunity to give myself credit for compiling this list without any help from any of you. Sure, it's my job, but scouring 1,000 experiments to find 10 that are actually worth a second look was tough. Woe is me.

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Water Evaporation Experiment

Let’s conduct a simple science experiment to demonstrate how evaporation works. This activity is perfect for elementary-aged kids and helps them observe and measure the effects of various conditions on water evaporation .

Evaporation (a liquid changes to a gas) is a fascinating process we experience daily, from puddles drying up after a rainstorm to clothes drying on a line. Understanding how different factors like temperature, airflow, and surface area affect the evaporation rate is a fantastic Earth Science related experiment for kids.

💡 Explore the water cycle [here] .

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• 5 containers of equal size and shape
• Thermometer
• Measuring tools (ruler, measuring cup)
• Notebook and pen for recording results

💡 Make sure to grab the free printable instructions for this experiment, along with the journal sheets below!

Instructions:

STEP 1: Fill 5 containers with the same amount of water. Once filled, use a ruler to measure the water level in each container and record it in your notebook.

STEP 2: Place the containers in different environments to observe how various factors affect water evaporation:

• Container 1: Place in a warm environment (eg. outside in the sun).
• Container 2: Place in a cool environment (eg. inside a refrigerator).
• Container 3: Place in a controlled room temperature environment.
• Container 4: Place in an area with increased airflow (eg. near a fan).
• Container 5: Increase the surface area of the water by pouring it into a shallow dish.

💡 Younger Grade Levels: Keep it simple by choosing one condition to experiment with, such as in the shade versus in the sun.

STEP 3: Observe the containers over a set period (eg. three days), and record the water level at regular intervals (eg. morning and evening each day). Use a ruler each time to measure the amount of water in each container and record your findings in a chart.

STEP 4: After completing the observations, compare the water levels across different containers. Which container had the most water evaporated? Which had the least?

💡 Discuss how temperature, airflow, and surface area influenced the evaporation rate.

Extension Activities:

• Graphing the Results: Have students create a graph to compare the evaporation rates under different conditions visually.
• Further Investigation: Encourage students to change variables like the type of liquid (e.g., saltwater vs. freshwater) or container size and see how these changes affect evaporation.
• Weather Connections: Discuss how evaporation plays a role in the water cycle and weather patterns, such as how puddles dry up or how sweat cools the body.

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How Does Evaporation Work?

Evaporation is the process by which a liquid changes to a gas. Various factors, such as temperature, airflow, humidity, and surface area, can influence the evaporation rate of water.

Higher temperatures increase the energy for water molecules to escape into the air, leading to faster evaporation.

Increased airflow can also speed up evaporation by moving moist air away from the surface, allowing more water to evaporate. A larger surface area allows more water molecules to escape, increasing the evaporation rate.

Free Printable Water Experiment Instructions [here] .

This experiment is ideal for kids in grades 3-6. It allows them to practice measuring, recording data, and drawing conclusions based on their observations.

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