Plus Equals #4, December 2021
In which Rob takes a deep dive into isometric projection and then gets generative with it.
Link tags: 3d
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Zdog · Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas and SVG
Impressively lightweight and smooth!
TANK (short film by Stu Maschwitz) - YouTube
This fun little film gives me all the feels for Battlezone …but then watching the excellent “making of” video really made me appreciate the love and attention to detail that went into this.
The search for another intelligence (Upsideclown)
A wonderful short story from Matt. I can see this one staying with me.
Smithsonian 3D Apollo 11 Command Module
This is so wonderful! A 3D fly-through of the Apollo 11 command module, right in your browser. It might get your fan whirring, but it’s worth it.
Click through for lots of great details on the interface controls, like which kinds of buttons and switches were chosen for which tasks.
And there’s this lovely note scrawled near the sextant by Michael Collins (the coolest of all the astronauts):
Spacecraft 107, alias Apollo 11, alias ‘Columbia.’ The Best Ship to Come Down the Line. God Bless Her.
SpaceTime Coordinates Memento ~ your personal place in space by govy — Kickstarter
This is a rather lovely idea—a disc with eight rings, each marked with the position of a planet, the arrangement of which corresponds to a specific date.
CSS 3D Clouds
A beautiful experiment with CSS transforms and a smattering of JavaScript.
What’s the deal with copyright and 3D printing? by Michael Weinberg
Michael Weinberg’s follow-up whitepaper to “It will be awesome if they don’t screw it up.”
Medaler.com
I know have a visualisation of my public data in the form of 3D-printed snowflake, thanks to Medaler.
3D-Printed “Magic Arms” - YouTube
3D printing an exoskeleton for a child with arthrogryposis — technology can be so fricking awesome!
BLDGBLOG: Object Cancers
You think that Digital Rights Management is bad? What about Physible Rights Management?
Elite - Cobra Mk III
Rendered in canvas by the reverend Dan Catt. Now I really want to play Elite.
3D Printing, Teleporters and Wishes - Anil Dash
Anil shares his thoughts on where there’s room for improvement in 3D printing, or as he calls it, teleporting.
Everything I Make With My Makerbot
Brendan is posting pictures of everything he fabs. Fab!
YouTube - Why I LOVE My 3D Printer
This may be one of the best pecha kuch— I mean, Ignite presentations I’ve ever seen.
CanvasMol
Beautiful chemistry visualisations using canvas.
Building Rome in a Day
Unbelievable 3D visualisation created by extracting common points from millions of pictures on Flickr of Rome, Venice and Dubrovnik. As Matt Haughey would say, "Holy shitballs!"
MoonLander3D Apollo 11 40th Anniversary Edition
Celebrating the Apollo 11 anniversary with Seb's 3D lunar lander game.
Cubescape - Your own digital landscape
Cam's latest experiment is insane but brilliant ...sort of like Cam himself.
Make me pulse - Making a better life for web developer since 2006 » Blog Archive » Alternativa 3D : a new awesome 3D engine for flash
Ridiculously impressive demo of a 3D engine in Flash.