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3D in the browser, with CSS alone

Experiments with 3D on a web page without a 3D library or WebGL. They are experiments; they are not on client sites.

01

The interactive diorama

A small room with a back wall, a floor and words floating at different depths. Move your mouse and the room tilts with you, so you look around the words in front. It is all ordinary HTML, placed in 3D with CSS.

ONE WAY OF LOOKING
sound
metal
light
code
mouse looks around · scroll or W/A/S/D walks through
02

Isometric 3D bars

A bar chart made of real 3D blocks, seen at an angle from above. Point at a bar, or at a line in the legend, and it rises with a shadow on the floor.

13
7
6
4
height · number of topics per theme on the About page
03

Origami: folding panels

A strip of panels you fold open and shut like a concertina. Each panel hangs from the previous one, so when you fold the first, the others fold with it.

01Systemsseeing the rules behind things
02Makingtaking apart and rebuilding
03Imagemaking images and sound
04Wordsexplaining something complex briefly
04

Walkable gallery

A 3D gallery you walk through with keyboard and mouse. Press E at an image for an explanation; at the end of the corridor a portal takes you to the next room. The gallery runs full screen on its own page.

Open the walkable gallery →full screen · WASD and mouse

Tip: click inside an experiment and use your mouse and W/A/S/D, or scroll, to look around.