Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS (2013)

https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/

48•razodactyl•5mo ago

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jayknight•5mo ago

I remember the promise of VRML, but never had a machine powerful enough to render anything but the simplest examples.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML

Keyframe•5mo ago

I worked on SGI machines at the time and even that wasn't powerful enough. Even though Indy was dubbed as "the web machine" (I worked on Indigo2). It was a bit too early when it was promised.

doawoo•5mo ago

wild that I booted up my SGI O2 the other night just to remember the name of the tech used in the demos that ran inside Netscape! And then spent a whole while reading about VRML.

I wish we had something as easy to deploy interactive experiences on the web like that today.

perilunar•5mo ago

Well, you can still use it — the plugins are dead but there's a couple of JS libraries that will render VRML files in the browser using WebGL:

• https://www.x3dom.org

• https://create3000.github.io/x_ite/

socalgal2•5mo ago

the VRML people migrated to X3D https://webx3d.org/

I don't believe it ever had any real uptake. It arguably has (had?) lots of issues.

Keyframe•5mo ago

My guy here did what Sega Saturn's VDP1 did. Instead of triangle based rendering, which most did, Saturn used quads, or "distorted sprites" to do 3D. Trivia: Nvidia's first accelerator NV1 was based on what VDP1 did and also used quads and failed on the market (mostly due to it).

jauntywundrkind•5mo ago

Both three.js and Lume have css 3d renderers, fwiw. I forget where there.js is but Lume's also supports a mixed mode too.

https://docs.lume.io/guide/rendering-modes https://threejs.org/docs/#examples/en/renderers/CSS3DRendere...

I don't think either has lighting though! Holy macrel!

chrismorgan•5mo ago

Looks like Lume is a layer atop Three.js?

ivape•5mo ago

Is there any universe where CSS can do 60fps?

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

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