3d retro graphics

Experiments

• 01. Demoscene · 1992

  Plasma

  Color-field oscillator running as a fullscreen fragment shader.

• 02. Hyperspace · 1993

  Retro 3d starfield

  Perspective starfield that stretches into a hyperspace tunnel.

• 03. GL workstation · 1993

  Retro torus

  Flat-shaded torus, wire overlay, and a ground grid. Drag to orbit.

• 04. Metaballs · 1995

  Chrome blobs

  Raymarched metaballs with a studio chrome environment.

• 05. Whitted · 1980

  Reflective spheres

  A Whitted raytracer: three spheres, checkerboard, shadows, three bounces.

• 06. donut.c · 2006

  ASCII torus

  A rotating 3D torus rendered with a luminance character ramp.

• 07. IRIX · 1994

  Wireframe globe

  Latitude/longitude cage with a phosphor stroke. Drag to spin.

• 08. Stam · 1999

  Fluid tank

  A stable 2D Navier-Stokes dye tank. Stir it with the pointer.

• 09. Vector field · 1996

  Flow field

  A thousand particles following a curling field. Pointer makes a vortex.

• 10. Jakobsen · 2001

  Verlet fabric

  A hanging cloth. Drag a point to tug the weave.

• 11. Vector CRT · 1979

  Wireframe terrain

  Scrolling vector hills. Pointer steers.

• 12. id Software · 1991

  Wolfenstein raycaster

  A DDA raycaster. WASD to walk, pointer to look.

• 13. Comanche · 1992

  Voxel Space

  A heightmap ray-column renderer. Pointer steers.

• 14. SNES · 1990

  Mode 7 floor

  Affine checkerboard ground, Space Harrier style. Pointer steers.

• 15. PlayStation · 1995

  PS1 affine warp

  A checker cube and floor with screen-space UVs. Drag to orbit.

• 16. Atari · 1984

  I, Robot polygons

  Filled cubes and pyramids, painter's algorithm. Drag to orbit.

• 17. Newell · 1975

  Utah teapot

  A Gouraud teapot. Move the pointer to drag the lights.

• 18. Demoscene · 1991

  Dot/square tunnel

  A twisting square tunnel of dots. Pointer shifts the vanishing point.

• 19. Demoscene · 1993

  Palette fire

  Heat rises through a 256-color fire LUT. Pointer is a torch.

• 20. Vector CRT · 1970s

  XY oscilloscope

  A Lissajous figure with phosphor persistence. Pointer changes the ratio.

• 21. Amiga · 1984

  Boing ball

  Checkered sphere, bounce, shadow. Click to kick it.

• 22. Trumbull · 1968

  Slit-scan stargate

  A 2001 corridor from a moving slit. Pointer shifts the vanishing point.

• 23. Rutt/Etra · 1973

  Rutt-Etra scan

  A video raster displaced by luminance. Drag to orbit.

• 24. Amiga · 1990

  Glenz vectors

  Translucent filled polygons, additive. Drag to orbit.

• 25. Martin · 1986

  Hopalong attractor

  A one-line iterator that fills a CRT. Pointer nudges a.

• 26. Penrose · 1974

  Penrose tiling

  Robinson triangles, aperiodic. Drag to pan.

• 27. Braben · 1984

  Elite planet

  A dotted sphere and a starfield. Drag to spin.

• 28. Scientific visualization · 2026

  Spaghetti vortex

  A concentrating 3D vortex. Trails spiral in as the core slims. Illustration, not a solver.

• 29. Stam · 1999 / 2026

  Dual tank

  Same 48×48 Stam twice. Left is bounded. Right is a lying legend.

• 30. Martin · 1986 / 2026

  Spiral stretch

  A hopalong cousin: radius shrinks, z grows. Pointer detunes the shrink.

• 31. Hopf · 1950

  Burgers shock

  Inviscid Burgers. Characteristics cross at a predicted T*.