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Artisans d'Idées: Treats Shadow as a Material

Open Artisans d'Idées and you get a black screen with one instruction: click to illuminate. What follows is a horizontal Three.js journey rendered almost entirely in shadow, with audio coupled to camera state instead of a clock. Built by Paris studio Immersive Garden. Worth opening devtools for.

May 10, 2026

Crystal Words: A Snowflake for Every Word You Type

Type a word. Watch it break into a six-fold ice lattice and hang in the air like a frozen sentence. Crystal Words is a small WebGL piece by Ming Jyun Hung that grows a structurally unique snowflake from whatever you put into the keyboard.

May 9, 2026

Cartier Watches and Wonders by Immersive Garden

Six Three.js alcoves, one per watch. Horizons drift, water laps, mirrors get theatrical. Immersive Garden turned Cartier's Watches and Wonders pavilion into a scrollable digital twin, with hidden gestures in every scene and a Mooders score doing narrative work.

May 6, 2026

Reze Engine: A Hand-Rolled WebGPU Renderer for MMD Characters

A hand-rolled WebGPU renderer for MMD anime characters, written in pure TypeScript with exactly one runtime dependency. Toon outlines, rim light, IK, and Bullet physics built from scratch, plus a tutorial that walks from Hello Triangle to a fully rigged, dancing character.

May 5, 2026

Editor's Choice

Shader.se: An 80s Corporate Tape Rendered in WebGPU

A Swedish studio's landing page done up like a 1987 training reel, with chunky type and confident geometry giving way to scene transitions that only make sense on a modern GPU. Built with Three.js on WebGPU and shaded with TSL.

Apr 12, 2026

Lore: Hand-Rolled WebGL by darkroom.engineering

Lore's landing page is the rare marketing site that earns its WebGL canvas. darkroom.engineering, the studio behind Lenis, wires GL into GSAP timelines for a logo-forward hero that is small, sharp, and worth reading the source of.

May 4, 2026

Weisdevice: A Glitchy Three.js Island With a Playable DJ Deck

Wei's portfolio drops you on a tiny island with a half-broken robot, a Gameboy, and a DJ deck that refuses to play clean loops. Three.js with GLSL and GSAP up top, smart performance choices underneath: raycasting at 30 FPS, render loop paused on inactive views, assets tiny and lazy-loaded.

May 3, 2026

Ameen Abdullah's Portfolio Turns the Browser Into a Stage

A WebGPU sakura scene anchors the hero, Vue drives the page, and a second WebGL layer paints mini scenes into textures aligned with the DOM. Off-screen blocks pause their work. Subtitles arrive in Japanese. A portfolio that behaves like a place rather than a CV.

May 2, 2026

Netquel: Multiplayer Space Combat Built on Rust, WASM, and WebGL

You start as a dot in dark space, mine asteroids, and watch your ship grow into a fleet trailing behind you like ducklings with laser cannons. Softbear's Netquel runs entirely in Rust, compiled to WASM, rendered through WebGL, with no install and no JavaScript on the hot path.

May 1, 2026

WebGPU Meets Zero-Knowledge: Can Browser-Based Proving Finally Work?

zkSecurity integrated WebGPU compute shaders with StarkWare's Stwo prover and hit 5x speedups on constraint polynomial evaluation.

Jan 27, 2026

WebGPU Hits Critical Mass: All Major Browsers Now Ship It

Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge all ship WebGPU by default. Eight years of spec work finally pays off. Here is what changed, where the gaps remain, and why this matters for graphics and compute on the web.

Dec 1, 2025