Imersive Digital Storytelling

I pitched, storyboarded, and designed this interactive story about all the various ways you can measure the tallest mountain in the world. I’m happy with the way we were able to make complex mathematical info feel simple to readers. One of the biggest challenges in building this story was balancing the large rasters with web performance—we solved this by baking shadows and highlights from high-res imagery into a lower-res DEM. Huge shoutout to developers Courtney Beesch and Eduardo Velez who made this project happen. Read the story here.