Building 3D Environments with HTML and CSS Transforms: Advanced Techniques for Lighting, Shadows and Collision Detection
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Summary
A developer documents their experimental project creating a 3D environment using HTML elements and CSS transforms, featuring advanced techniques like complex models, realistic lighting, shadows, and collision detection. The article serves as a technical guide showing how CSS 3D transforms can be pushed beyond basic demonstrations to create immersive 3D worlds.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe demo was a technical showcase of what could be achieved with CSS at the time but I wanted to see how far I could push things
over the past few months I’ve been working on a new version with more complex models, realistic lighting, shadows and collision detection
The geometry of a 3D object is stored as a collection of points (or vertices), each having an x, y and z property that defines its position
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