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24 alternatives to Make 3D art in your browser using Lisp and math

Bauble is a toy that I've been working on for a few weeks, and I think it's reached the point where other people could have fun with it! Bauble is based on raymarching signed distance functions, which are kind of like... 3D vector art? They're pretty common in the procedural art community and you can do some amazing things with them, but normally writing SDFs means writing low-level shader code. I wanted to play with SDFs, but I found it very frustrating to translate "I want to rotate this" into "okay, that means I have to construct a rotation matrix, and then apply it to the current point,…

Bauble is a browser-based tool for creating 3D art using Lisp and mathematical functions. It simplifies the process of working with signed distance functions—a technique used in procedural art—by providing a high-level… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Make 3D art in your browser using Lisp and math launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Simple SDF mesh generation in Python. Contribute to fogleman/sdf development by creating an account on GitHub.

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    Mesh▲608

    Design 3D illustrations & icons in a quick and engaging way

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    Generate high-quality triangulated and polygonal art from images. - rh12503/triangula

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Xspiral▲363

    Create 3D designs using 2D methods, Work with AI in 3D space

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    I'm the co-creator and maintainer of https://aframe.io/ and long time Web 3D graphics dev. Super excited about new techniques to author / render / represent 3D. Spark is a an open source library to easily integrate Gaussian splats in your THREE.js scene I worked with some friends and I hope you find useful. Looking forward to hearing what features / rendering techniques you would love to see next.

    2025 · sparkjs.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! 2d spritesheets for game development are often distributed as a PNG image, sometimes with a separate JSON or XML metadata document describing the layout, including any animation sequences within the sheet. Sometimes there is no metadata document and you have to work it out and manually write custom code to chop up the spritesheet and reference the sprites you want. I think it would be good if it became standard practice to distribute spritesheet PNGs with the metadata inline inside a PNG "chunk" so the whole thing is self-contained. That way artists can just distribute one file, and…

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    V2Fun▲449

    Generate 3D character with 8K textures and AI motion capture

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    Pixellate▲102

    A simple and easy-to-use pixel art creator with offline mode

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    Creating high-quality scientific figures can be time-consuming and challenging, even though sketching ideas on paper is relatively easy. Furthermore, recreating existing figures that are not stored in formats preserving semantic information is equally complex. To tackle this problem, we introduce DeTikZify, a novel multimodal language model that automatically synthesizes scientific figures as semantics-preserving TikZ graphics programs based on sketches and existing figures. We also introduce a Monte Carlo Tree Search-based inference algorithm that enables DeTikZify to iteratively refine its…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Render 3D models (OBJ, glTF, GLB, STL, .vox) as ASCII art — in the browser, in React or Vue, or straight in your terminal. A three.js-style API with no WebGL and no canvas: just text in a single <pre>.

    Jun 2026 · glyphcss.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! I'm the author of this project. I wrote it because I think that the math that makes characters move in games and movies is incredibly beautiful, and I wanted to give others a glimpse into it. It's crazy to think that quaternions, an abstract mathematical tool discovered by William Rowan Hamilton in 1843, would be so perfectly suited to solve hard problems in the world of 3D character animation more than a hundred years later. The story of how he discovered quaternions is also beautiful. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia: "Hamilton was looking for ways of extending complex numbers…

    2022 · diegomacario.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Build 3D interactions visually, without writing any code

    2015 · 3d-transforms.webflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Creating 3D Character illustrations has never been easier

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    Hundreds of 3D illustrations for your designs

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    Ever since I remember I had a lot of curiosity regarding hyper dimensional spaces. Picturing higher dimensions, such an impossible yet exciting idea... So years ago I came across a small GIF of a tesseract. Since then it left me wondering how cubes from even higher dimensions would look like... Years passed and I became a software developer, decided to tackle the problem myself and ncube was the result. ncube allows you to visualize rotating hypercubes of arbitrary dimensions. It works by rotating the hyperdimensional vertices and applying a chain of perspective projections to them until the…

    2023 · ncube.ndavd.com · its alternatives →

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    How can you make affine transformations (the only ones SVGs are capable of) resemble perspective transformations?

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    A framework for 3D geospatial visualization in the browser - UDST/vizicities

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    World's most extensive selection of handpicked & curated 3Ds

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    Create 3D models from 2D pixel art

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    Browse and share GPU-made GIFs. Explore GLSL shader experiments, search by topic, and open any piece in the editor to learn or remix.

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