Susurrus: A Watercolor World Built in Three.js

A spatial web piece by Xianyao Wei. Cream-and-sepia watercolor, motion that drifts like ink in water, a small 3D figure waiting to be nudged. Three.js and Blender geometry over WebGL, with a physics-flavored interaction layer doing most of the storytelling.

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A cream and sepia 3D watercolor scene rendered in the browser with an ink-like motion drifting softly across the page.

Susurrus opens with a hush. You land in a cream-and-sepia watercolor world where motion drifts like ink in water and a small 3D figure waits for you to nudge it through scenes. Xianyao Wei calls it a spatial web experience, which sells it short. It plays more like stepping into a still-wet sketchbook: poetry tucked into modal corners, ambient sound that never announces itself, interactions that feel less like clicks and more like pressing a thumb into paper.

Wei is a designer and creative technologist finishing a Master's in Germany, equally at home in Three.js, Blender, TouchDesigner, and Cables.gl. The site runs on Three.js over WebGL with Blender-built geometry. Crack open devtools, scrub through the scene graph, see what the watercolor pass is actually doing.

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