My path to learning CSS was a little unorthodox. I didn’t start as a front-end developer. I was a Java developer. In fact, my earliest recollections of CSS were picking colors for things in Visual Studio.
It wasn’t until later …
Super cool project from Bennett Feely! It makes any web type into 3D lettering with a mouseover effect that moves the 3D objects in space. It’s reminiscent of Zdog, but for type. It works its magic by stacking a …
This was always my favorite thing in Mad magazine. One page (the inside of the back cover, I think) was covered in a zany illustration. You folded that page in thirds, covering up the middle-third of that image, and a …
David DeSandro has loads of super cool JavaScript libraries he’s created over the years. His latest is Zdog, a “round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas & SVG.” It’s only been about a month since he dropped it (although, …
Before becoming a web developer, I worked in the visual effects industry, creating award-winning, high-end 3D effects for movies and TV Shows such as Tron, The Thing, Resident Evil, and Vikings. To be able to create these effects, we …
Let’s say we wanted to have something like this:
Clockwise circular (cyclic) distribution with partially overlapping items.At first, this doesn’t seem too complicated. We start with 12 numbered items:…
I know there are a ton of pure CSS cube tutorials out there. I’ve done a few myself. But for mid-2017, when CSS Custom Properties are supported in all major desktop browsers, they all feel… outdated and very WET. …
The opening to Star Wars is iconic. The effect of text scrolling both up and away from the screen was both a crazy cool special effect for a movie back in 1977 and a cool typographical style that was brand …
Virtual reality has become a thing again! All of the usual suspects are involved: HTC, Microsoft, Samsung, and Facebook, among others, are all peddling their respective devices. These predictable players shouldn’t be having all the fun, though!
You make websites. …
As some people might know, I’ve always loved 3D geometry. Which has meant getting drawn towards playing with CSS 3D transforms in order to create various geometric shapes. I’ve built a huge collection of such demos, which you can check …
I’ve always loved 3D geometry. I began playing with CSS 3D transforms as soon as I noticed support in CSS was getting decent. But while it felt natural to use transforms to create 2D shapes and move/rotate them in 3D …
