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3D Life Sim Turns Artificial Life Into a WebGPU Instrument

Aaron Lemke's 3D Life Sim is an open-source WebGPU particle life simulation with live audio input, MIDI mapping, presets, and cockpit controls for exploring emergent forms.

Aug 1, 2026

Particles Cursor Turns Images Into a Shader Field

Gabriel Villanueva’s Three.js experiment turns images into particle grids that react to cursor movement through GLSL displacement, texture color, and real-time controls.

Jul 19, 2026

Still Night: Play Van Gogh's Starry Night as a WebGL Instrument

Van Gogh's Starry Night, rebuilt as a point cloud you can play. Touch a bright swirl and it answers high; the dark hills drop low. Brushstrokes drift along Van Gogh's own paths, and five regions form a Tone.js orchestra. You play the painting to make the music.

Jun 18, 2026

Evian's Bicentennial WebGPU World, Where Rain Runs Downhill

Evian's 200th turned into an alpine scene that hands everything to the GPU: rain that lands on peaks and streaks down the slopes, one wind texture every object obeys, lightning generated fresh on each strike, and 20,000 particles colliding against an SDF instead of meshes.

Jun 12, 2026

Elimar: A Lost Van Gogh, Rendered in Particles

OddCommon's hour-long scrollytelling for LMI Group renders Vincent van Gogh as a cloud of black and white motes that scatter on approach and reform at distance. One particle system in many disguises, wrapped around four years of forensic art authentication.

May 21, 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

BlueYard: A Two-Color WebGL Atlas by Unseen Studio

Unseen Studio rebuilt BlueYard around Buckminster Fuller, a fluid-simulated orb, and a beautiful color palette. Three.js under the hood, reactive cursor, four thematic zones to scroll through. Worth opening devtools on.

Apr 20, 2026

Botanics: A Three.js Plant Study

Plantlike forms in a browser tab, no loops or cheap wiggle in sight. Sujen Phea's Three.js scene leans on instancing, careful shaders, and a scene budget that stays out of its own way. Open it, let it run, and see how long before you remember to close it.

Apr 18, 2026

Justine Soulié's Portfolio: A WebGL Site Where Illustrations Are the Interface

Every illustration on Justine Soulié's portfolio is a live WebGL scene with its own micro-interactions. Built by Patrick Heng using OGL, scroll physics, and custom shaders, the canvas isn't decoration. It is the UI.

Apr 11, 2026

OFFFICE: A Furniture Studio Portfolio Built on Restraint and WebGL

A two-color WebGL portfolio for an Italian-Swiss design studio. 3D furniture models rotate in stark black and white, with seamless page transitions that pull you into dedicated model viewers. Built by Federico Valla using Three.js and Blender.

Mar 29, 2026

False Earth: A GPU-Driven Procedural Planet Built with WebGPU, TSL, and Three.js

An astronaut walks an alien planet that responds to every step. Over 1M grass blades, procedural terrain, and VAT-animated roses, all running in the browser via WebGPU compute shaders, TSL, and React Three Fiber.

Mar 28, 2026

Martin Laxenaire's Portfolio Is a WebGPU Game Built on His Own Engine

Martin Laxenaire turned his portfolio into a playable WebGPU experience powered by gpu-curtains, his own 3D engine. Procedural particles, boids, and invoice-sized spheres unlock as you interact. Full source code and a Codrops breakdown included.

Mar 22, 2026

The Pendragon Cycle: WebGL as Cinematic Storytelling

Merlin Studio and Format-3 built a WebGL prologue for a fantasy series where scrolling feels like a camera move. Custom shaders, particle systems, and deliberate pacing turn a promotional site into something worth studying.

Mar 19, 2026

Vermeer's Milkmaid Dissolved into WebGPU Particles

Revelium Studio broke Vermeer's 1658 Milkmaid into thousands of GPU-driven particles using WebGPU and Three.js TSL. Color-sampled from the original painting, the result is a particle cloud that somehow still holds the composition together. Worth a long stare.

Mar 16, 2026

DRIFT: A Million Particles, a Lost Astronaut, and AI-Generated Loneliness

A lost astronaut records his diary in your browser. Over a million GPGPU particles shift with his mental state while AI generates fresh text and voice each visit. Ming Jyun Hung built something that feels alive and a little heartbreaking.

Mar 14, 2026

Penderecki's Garden: A Point-Cloud Memorial Built Using Photogrammetry

Huncwot turned billions of drone-captured particles into a navigable WebGL garden for composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Custom GLSL shaders breathe with the music. Fully keyboard-accessible. One of the most ambitious Three.js projects we've seen.

Mar 12, 2026