AAE Virtual Lab — introductory start page

Adapted directly from the user's supplied Ascend source archive. The original scene CONFIG, GLSL, scroll framing, cloud shells, stars, atmosphere, ocean shading, land markers and compositing pipeline are retained. The original layout tokens and React spring reveal components are reused.

Changes: Virtual Lab copy, institutional branding, links to the separately retained original laboratory entrance, original AI-generated artwork, compact learning paths, generic civil aircraft, a conceptual satellite constellation and orbital tourism station, and a motion pause control. The original Next.js hosting wrapper is replaced with a static pre-render/build adapter; no Next.js service is required.

Source: _WEBSITE_ATM/sources/atm/Getlayers/ascend.zip
Included source licence: ASCEND-LICENSE.txt
Three.js 0.143.0: THREE-LICENSE.txt
Inter: INTER-LICENSE.txt
Generic aircraft are original teaching geometry. Routes, scale and traffic are illustrative, not real flight data.

Copyright of the Virtual Lab additions: Prof. Kam K.H. Ng
Associate Head and Associate Professor
Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Co-design with Super Intelligence GPT-6 Astra