I ray-traced the Moon in a single shader, then put its center up for auction
We're live on Product Hunt today: come say hi Right now there's a King of the Moon, and anyone can take the crown. buythemoon.lol is a real-time 3D…
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A 3D portfolio Google can read and a phone can run
3D portfolios have a bad reputation for two reasons, and both are fair. To a search engine they're usually an empty <canvas> : all the text li…
Vanilla Disintegrate — Modern and Impressive Animations for the Web
The story behind it What do web animations usually look like? Fade in, fade out, a slight movement, some scaling. There is nothing wrong with that.…
Is UI Overdraw Killing Your WebGL Performance?
Why Is Overdraw Particularly Important in WebGL? When optimizing a Unity WebGL application, developers often focus on polygon count, draw calls, tex…
Why a static Three.js scene still cooks your phone, and the dirty-flag fix
So I have a bunch of small games on my site. Ludo, tic-tac-toe, carrom, rock-paper-scissors. Nothing fancy, the kind of thing you'd think runs on a…
A planet in a browser tab
Our site now has a chapter where you scroll a camera through low orbit, visiting the four places we operate from. It looks like it should weigh fift…
I built topolines, an animated topographic contour background for React
Every couple of projects I ended up rebuilding the same effect: an animated topographic map background, the kind with slowly drifting contour lines.…
Building Gridzo: A Scalable Competitive Gaming Platform with Unity WebGL, Next.js and DynamoDB
Building Gridzo: A Scalable Competitive Gaming Platform with Unity WebGL, Next.js and DynamoDB This article was created as part of my submission for…
AI UV Unwrapping Tool: Auto-Generate Clean UV Maps for 3D Models
Why AI UV Unwrapping Might Become the Missing Step in AI 3D Workflows AI 3D generation is moving fast. Today, creators can generate 3D models from i…
I built a 1:1 solar system with Fable 5 in the days before it was pulled offline
I built a 1:1 solar system with Fable 5 in the days before it was pulled offline On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 — the most capable mod…
MediaPipe Hand Tracking & Face Detection in JavaScript
A beginner MediaPipe JavaScript example: build a rainbow drawing app in the browser. No npm, no backend, one HTML file. Try the live demo What You'l…
Every Medium Publication That Accepts 3D Content (2026 Map)
If you create 3D content — printing guides, WebGL tutorials, Three.js projects, CAD workflows — and want to publish on Medium, you have a discovery…
Build a scroll-driven WebGL hero in 30 lines
Hero sections that respond to scroll are one of those features that look complicated and actually aren't, once you have the right pieces. Two images…
OpenLiDARViewer: A Browser-Based LiDAR and Point-Cloud Viewer
Rendering LiDAR Scans in the Browser Without Uploading Anything Most point-cloud workflows still start the same way. Install a desktop tool. Import…
Procedurally generating marble dice textures with simplex noise
I built a 3D dice roller as a Chrome extension and wanted dice that look like the marbled Chessex ones — those rich, swirling, Old-World-stone dice…