I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)
337 points by speckx | 212 comments
A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.
#3d-graphics on Hacker News
22 stories tagged 3d-graphics, newest first.
LittleJS is 2D and 3D now(frankforce.com)
91 points by dmit | 36 comments
Blog post by Frank Force announcing that LittleJS, a small open source JavaScript web game engine, now supports 3D in addition to 2D.
Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields(mattkeeter.com)
177 points by luu | 10 comments
Matt Keeter's project page for Halfspace, an experimental IDE for solid modeling using distance fields with scripted, node-based 3D model editing.
Wavelets in 3D Graphics(comonad.com)
9 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments
A circa-1995 article by Edward Kmett on The Comonad.Reader explaining the use of wavelets, including the Haar basis, for compression in 3D graphics.
Blender 5.2 LTS(blender.org)
367 points by makizar | 148 comments
Blender.org release page for Blender 5.2 LTS, which currently returns a 404 "no longer here" error page.
Printing Gaussian Splats(patreon.com)
358 points by ilnmtlbnm | 44 comments
A Patreon post by Dany Bittel about physically printing Gaussian splats; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification page.
Firewood Splitting Simulator(screen.toys)
955 points by memalign | 278 comments
A browser-based 3D firewood splitting simulator by shapiro500, part of the screen.toys collection of interactive web toys.
Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics(ratty-term.org)
625 points by orhunp_ | 206 comments
Landing page for Ratty, a GPU-rendered terminal emulator that supports inline 3D graphics and features a spinning rat cursor.
Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter(fluorite.game)
516 points by bsimpson | 289 comments
Landing page for Fluorite, a console-grade 3D game engine integrated with Flutter that lets developers write game code in Dart and embed scenes via a FluoriteView widget.
Spherical Snake(kevinalbs.com)
618 points by subset | 123 comments
A browser game where you play Snake on the surface of a sphere, controlled with arrow keys or on-screen buttons, with a leaderboard and GitHub source.
Blender 5.0(blender.org)
957 points by FrostKiwi | 309 comments
Blender.org release page for Blender 5.0, the open-source 3D creation suite; the captured page shows only the site header with no content loaded.
A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet(messenger.abeto.co)
1938 points by thecupisblue | 314 comments
Messenger, a browser-based WebGL game in which players deliver messages around a tiny planet; the page was captured on its loading screen.
Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO(cgchannel.com)
361 points by cma | 72 comments
CG Channel news article reporting that Blender founder Ton Roosendaal will step down as chairman and CEO of the Blender Foundation, announced at Blender Conference 2025.
Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization(visualrambling.space)
825 points by damarberlari | 132 comments
An interactive slide-style visual explainer on moving objects in 3D space using parametric equations, building up to a spherical helix path.
Ambient Garden(ambient.garden)
352 points by fipar | 62 comments
ambient.garden is an interactive browser-based 3D landscape that generates algorithmic ambient music as you explore it.
Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js(sparkjs.dev)
364 points by dmarcos | 85 comments
Landing page for Spark, an open source 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer library for THREE.js supporting ply, spz, splat and ksplat formats.
Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool(blender.org)
705 points by babuloseo | 234 comments
Blender 4.4 release page highlighting improved animation workflow, modeling, a new sculpt brush, smoother video editing, and over 700 bug fixes.
Meta 3D Gen(ai.meta.com)
455 points by meetpateltech | 128 comments
Meta AI research publication page for Meta 3D Gen, a system for generating 3D assets, dated July 2, 2024, with abstract and author list.
Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser(plant.max-richter.dev)
404 points by jimfx | 40 comments
A browser-based tool for procedurally generating and rendering 3D plants using a node-graph editor with adjustable parameters.
Blender 4.0 release notes(wiki.blender.org)
608 points by TangerineDream | 198 comments
Blender developer wiki page for the Blender 4.0 release notes (released November 14, 2023), listing sections like animation, geometry nodes, modeling, and sculpting.
Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia form alliance for OpenUSD(apple.com)
624 points by anaclet0 | 231 comments
Apple Newsroom press release announcing Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA forming the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote open standards for 3D content.
Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine(nilsbakker.nl)
557 points by stijnbakker | 103 comments
A portfolio page about using Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles in Unreal Engine; it failed to load with a resource-limit error.