Addictive Egg Hunt Game Merci-Michel's MSI Egg Hunt is a timing-based browser game where you dash between rocks and collect golden eggs. Simple premise, polished execution. Built with Three.js and WebGL, it won Awwwards Site of the Day in 2023. Give it a spin and check out how the Paris studio nailed the feel.
WebGL Fluid Simulation by Pavel Dobryakov A GPU-powered Navier-Stokes fluid solver running entirely in the browser. Swipe to create swirling, colorful flows with bloom effects, vorticity controls, and real-time interactivity. Works on mobile too.
The Globe of Economic Complexity: Visualizing $15 Trillion in World Trade Harvard's WebGL experiment animates 153,000 particles to map global exports. Each dot = $100M. Built with Three.js, it's a masterclass in data viz that's begging for a modern remake with up-to-date capabilities and data.
Active Theory Portfolio Active Theory's portfolio site is a technical flex: real-time particles, AI-powered navigation, and immersive 3D environments built on their custom Hydra framework. Twelve years of pushing browsers to their limits, and it shows.
Tao Tajima's Sleek Portfolio Tao Tajima's portfolio uses a clever shader trick to create buttery smooth infinite scrolling transitions. Built by Yuichiroh Arai at Homunculus Inc., it's a masterclass in doing more with less.
The Sea We Breathe: An Immersive Ocean Conservation Experience Dive into three underwater WebGL journeys exploring ocean conservation. Built by Unseen Studio, this award-winning experience blends baked animations, real-time interaction, and Stephen Fry's narration to make marine protection feel tangible.
Prepare to Pioneer: Dogstudio's AI-Powered Personality Quiz An AI personality quiz where a shape-shifting point-cloud entity guides you through questions powered by GPT-3.5. Under the hood: a custom AstroGL WebGL framework, Nuxt.js, and context-aware dialogue that adapts based on who you are. Agency self-promo done right.
Why Most 3D Websites Feel Wrong (and How to Fix It) An interactive demo that breaks down what makes 3D sites feel clunky vs. alive. Step through real examples of inertia, bounce, magnetic snapping, and micro-interactions that transform flat 3D into something users actually want to touch.
LLM Visualization: A 3D Interactive Walkthrough of GPT-Style Transformers A stunning 3D visualization that lets you explore every layer, attention head, and matrix operation inside a GPT-style LLM. Watch inference happen in real time and finally grok how transformers actually work.
Gen-02 Portfolio: An Immersive World Samsy transforms the traditional portfolio into a 3D navigable space with his Gen-02 site. Built with Vue.js, GSAP, and custom WebGL, visitors explore interactive rooms showcasing a decade of award-winning creative tech work. Awwwards SOTD winner with serious technical depth.
Realistic Physics Simulations in the Browser Dive into saharan's impressive collection of browser-based physics simulations featuring realistic water droplets with WebAssembly SIMD, GPGPU-powered fluffy balls, coupled cloth-fluid dynamics, and more. All built with Haxe and open-sourced on GitHub for anyone curious about computational physics.
Exploring Sutro Tower in 3D Fly through a photorealistic 3D scan of SF's iconic Sutro Tower. Drone photography, gsplat training, and SOGS compression were used to create this ~30MB Gaussian Splat rendered in PlayCanvas. A beautiful example of web-based photogrammetry in action.
Persepolis Reimagined Media.Monks and Getty Museum built a browser-based tour through ancient Persepolis at its peak. Full-scale WebGL recreation of the Persian capital with smart optimizations: instancing, frustum culling, LOD systems. Nine months of dev work with historians to nail the details. Worth exploring.
Marble Madness-Inspired Game for Netlify Paris studio Little Workshop built a Marble Madness-inspired WebGL experience to celebrate Netlify's 5 million developers. Using Three.js, Rapier physics, and a Unity-to-browser pipeline, two devs created this award-winning browser game in 8 weeks.
Holiday Snow Globe Michael Modena's holiday snow globe uses WebGPU compute shaders to create volumetric snow that actually fills the dome with mesh-based particles generating proper normals. Plus a Porsche GT3 drifts inside. It's a Christmas card that doubles as a lighting and compute shader stress test.
Messenger Messenger is a beautifully crafted WebGL delivery game. Set on a tiny cel-shaded planet, it runs flawlessly across browsers. Explore the charming world, complete deliveries, and discover hidden surprises.