Rockaway Budget Observatory

Rockaway Township · Rockaway Borough · Morris Hills Regional build 2026-08-07-pub · all versions
The Meeting Helix · Accountability + Transparency · 3D (WebGL)

Sixteen years, as a spiral

Height is the year, angle around the cylinder is the month, distance from the axis is how much the board did that night. The one view on this site where a third spatial dimension carries a real variable — and the fourth is time.

Reduced motion is on. The flat grid is the default, autonomous motion is off, and no WebGL context is created. Drag-to-rotate still works if you choose the 3D view — that is your motion, not ours.

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2026
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Nothing selected. Hover a meeting, or press the arrow keys.

Why this one is allowed to be 3D. Two clocks run at once: the linear clock (2010→2026) and the cyclic one (January→December→January). A flat year×month grid must cut the cyclic clock somewhere, and every reading across that cut misstates adjacency — December and the next January land at opposite ends of the page. The cylinder is the surface on which both clocks are continuous, so a rhythm that survives sixteen turns shows up as a vertical alignment down the wall. Nothing rotates by itself. Public-comment duration is not in the district's own record, so — unlike the design spec's synthetic version — there is no marker-size channel here; its absence is itself a finding.

source: data/meetings.json (357 meetings) · data/meeting_analytics.json three.js 0.169.0 · loaded only when the 3D view is chosen