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.
13. Comanche · 1992
Voxel Space
A heightmap ray-column renderer. Pointer steers.
14. SNES · 1990
Mode 7 floor
Affine checkerboard ground, Space Harrier style. Pointer steers.
15. PlayStation · 1995
PS1 affine warp
A checker cube and floor with screen-space UVs. Drag to orbit.
16. Atari · 1984
I, Robot polygons
Filled cubes and pyramids, painter's algorithm. Drag to orbit.
17. Newell · 1975
Utah teapot
A Gouraud teapot. Move the pointer to drag the lights.
18. Demoscene · 1991
Dot/square tunnel
A twisting square tunnel of dots. Pointer shifts the vanishing point.
19. Demoscene · 1993
Palette fire
Heat rises through a 256-color fire LUT. Pointer is a torch.
20. Vector CRT · 1970s
XY oscilloscope
A Lissajous figure with phosphor persistence. Pointer changes the ratio.
21. Amiga · 1984
Boing ball
Checkered sphere, bounce, shadow. Click to kick it.
22. Trumbull · 1968
Slit-scan stargate
A 2001 corridor from a moving slit. Pointer shifts the vanishing point.
23. Rutt/Etra · 1973
Rutt-Etra scan
A video raster displaced by luminance. Drag to orbit.
24. Amiga · 1990
Glenz vectors
Translucent filled polygons, additive. Drag to orbit.
25. Martin · 1986
Hopalong attractor
A one-line iterator that fills a CRT. Pointer nudges a.
26. Penrose · 1974
Penrose tiling
Robinson triangles, aperiodic. Drag to pan.
27. Braben · 1984
Elite planet
A dotted sphere and a starfield. Drag to spin.
28. Scientific visualization · 2026
Spaghetti vortex
A concentrating 3D vortex. Trails spiral in as the core slims. Illustration, not a solver.

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

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