3d retro graphics

Copy a demo, drop it on a page. Old workstation tricks, WebGL 1 or a 2D canvas. Licensed CC0.

Experiments

01. Demoscene · 1992
Plasma
Color-field oscillator running as a fullscreen fragment shader.
02. Hyperspace · 1993
Retro 3d starfield
Perspective starfield that stretches into a hyperspace tunnel.
03. GL workstation · 1993
Retro torus
Flat-shaded torus, wire overlay, and a ground grid. Drag to orbit.
04. Metaballs · 1995
Chrome blobs
Raymarched metaballs with a studio chrome environment.
05. Whitted · 1980
Reflective spheres
A Whitted raytracer: three spheres, checkerboard, shadows, three bounces.
06. donut.c · 2006
ASCII torus
A rotating 3D torus rendered with a luminance character ramp.
07. IRIX · 1994
Wireframe globe
Latitude/longitude cage with a phosphor stroke. Drag to spin.
08. Stam · 1999
Fluid tank
A stable 2D Navier-Stokes dye tank. Stir it with the pointer.
09. Vector field · 1996
Flow field
A thousand particles following a curling field. Pointer makes a vortex.
10. Jakobsen · 2001
Verlet fabric
A hanging cloth. Drag a point to tug the weave.
11. Vector CRT · 1979
Wireframe terrain
Scrolling vector hills. Pointer steers.
12. id Software · 1991
Wolfenstein raycaster
A DDA raycaster. WASD to walk, pointer to look.

The catalog is at /llms.txt and /api/v1/experiments. Source HTML is at /examples/{slug}.html, licensed CC0 1.0.