A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page
Details
- External ID
- 49824144
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A CC0 museum of retro 3D tricks you can paste into a page
- Website domain
- 3d-retro.com
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 40
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8269537480063796
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cc0 code collection of retro 3d web tricks for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a curated showcase of retro visual effects that can be implemented with HTML5 Canvas, WebGL shaders, and standard JavaScript math routines.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions
Concerns raised: inaccurate demo scene reproductions, wireframe globe projection errors, inaccurate Utah teapot model, broken animations with prefers-reduced-motion
Competitors
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Launched 327 days after the earliest competitor.
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