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3D Drawing on the Web

October 21, 2025
April 8, 2016

A brief history of graphics on the web and WebGPU - Ashley's blog

mattdesl/graphics-resources: a list of graphic programming resources
The Pixel Factory on computer graphic, 3D and WebGL

gpu.js - GPU Accelerated JavaScript
TensorFire neural networks in the browser using WebGL

pmndrs/detect-gpu: Classifies GPUs based on their 3D rendering benchmark score allowing the developer to provide sensible default settings for graphically intensive applications.

WebGL

WebGL - Wikiwand

WebGL Stats
get.webgl.org test if your browser supports WebGL
chrome://gpu/
chrome://flags/

Techniques for Rendering Text with WebGL | CSS-Tricks
OpenGL 2 allows programmer to use shaders (GLSL) to control the pipeline. WebGL is a subset of OpenGL that works in browsers.

Basics of building 3D games on the Web ★ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Basics of building 3D games on the Web ★ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

A brief introduction to WebGL - DEV Community
WebGL Essentials - Tuts+ Code Tutorials

WebGL Insights book

TojiCode: What's coming in WebGL 2.0
TojiCode: Using WebGL on Chrome (AKA: "Why don't I have the WebGLs?!?")
TojiCode: Holistic WebGL

TojiCode: How Blink has affected WebGL?
TojiCode: How Blink has affected WebGL, Part 2

Making WebGL Dance — Acko.net
3Dparallax/insight: A helpful Chrome extension for WebGL development

WebGPU

Replacement of WebGL and Three.js

Introducing WebGPU: Unlocking modern GPU access for JavaScript - YouTube
WebGPU: Unlocking modern GPU access in the browser - Chrome Developers
Chrome ships WebGPU - Chrome Developers

Overview of WebGPU  |  Chrome for Developers
From WebGL to WebGPU  |  Chrome for Developers
Learn WebGPU for C++ documentation

What is WebGPU? - YouTube

Visionary 3D
WebGPU :: Rendering the future in Real-Time - YouTube
WebGPU :: Javascript at the speed of Light - YouTube

WebGPU Tutorial - Advanced Graphics on the Web Course - YouTube freeCodeCamp, 2:06:29

Native Runtime

Why I switched from WebGPU to NVRHI - YouTube

dawn - Git at Google used by Chrome

wgpu: portable graphics library for Rust
gfx-rs/wgpu-native: Native WebGPU implementation based on wgpu-core used by Firefox

samdauwe/webgpu-native-examples: Collection of C-language examples that demonstrate basic rendering and computation in WebGPU native.

Three.js

Three.js has internal float point representation of models, cannot be optimized
Have problem working with shaders (for lighting)

three.js - JavaScript 3D library
Introduction To Polygonal Modeling And Three.js – Smashing Magazine
three.js sketches - jagracar
unconed/threestrap: Minimal Three.js Bootstrapper
pmndrs/three-stdlib: 📚 Stand-alone library of threejs examples designed to run without transpilation in node & browser

three.js - Transparent objects in Threejs - Stack Overflow WebGL have issue doing alpha blending of two semi transparent objects
Understand 3D in Javascript (ThreeJS) in 5 minutes - Je suis un dev
Build a Mindblowing 3D Portfolio Website // Three.js Beginner’s Tutorial - YouTube
Creating a game in Three.js - LogRocket Blog
Getting Started With Three.js. Importing your first 3D model into… | by Ilolo Izu | Apr, 2022 | Better Programming

Ecosystem

Theatre.js - animation toolbox for the web

LunchboxJS Vue 3 custom renderer for Three.js
Build 3D visuals in Vue with Lunchbox.js - LogRocket Blog

WhitestormJS Framework
WhitestormJS/whs.js: 🌪 Super-fast 3D framework for Web Applications 🥇 & Games 🎮. Based on Three.js

TWGL.js

TWGL.js, a tiny WebGL helper library
greggman/twgl.js: A Tiny WebGL helper Library
Intro to WebGL Programming using twgl. / Sumant Pattanaik / Observable

curtains.js

curtains.js | Home easy WebGL tool to animate images and videos
Animate Images and Videos with curtains.js | CSS-Tricks

Autonomous Visualization System (AVS)

AVS Home

streetscape.gl
aurora-opensource/xviz: A protocol for real-time transfer and visualization of autonomy data

Others

Zdog · Round, flat, designer-friendly pseudo-3D engine for canvas and SVG

regl.party

CopperLicht - JavaScript/WebGL 3D library

Game Engines

also capable of WebXR

PlayCanvas | 3D HTML5 & WebGL Game Engine

BabylonJS - 3D engine based on WebGL/Web Audio and JavaScript

Svelte

Svelte Cubed

React.js

d-Threeact: How the Sift Science Console Team Made d3 and React the Best of Friends — Sift Science Blog
D3 and React - the future of charting components? - Binary Consulting
React-d3 · Eric S. Bullington
React: Integrating 3rd-party visual components
Stateful Peanut Butter and SVG-elly: A React + D3 Tutorial
How to construct a heat map in React

React Three Fiber

Poimandres many WebGL related libraries

React Three Fiber Documentation
pmndrs/react-three-fiber: 🇨🇭 A React renderer for Three.js
pmndrs/drei: 🥉 useful helpers for react-three-fiber
3D GAMES in JAVASCRIPT??! - YouTube

pmndrs/react-three-next: React Three Fiber, Nextjs, Tailwind and Styled-components starter

@react-three/cannon
pmndrs/use-cannon: 👋💣 physics based hooks for @react-three/fiber

@react-three/p2
pmndrs/use-p2: 👋💣 2d physics hooks for @react-three/fiber

pmndrs/react-three-flex: 💪📦 Flexbox for react-three-fiber

Lunakepio/Mario-Kart-3.js
MarioKart.js Blew My Mind (Open Source + React + ThreeJS) - YouTube

Implementing 3D graphics in React
Build a 3D World in React with ThreeJS and React Three Fiber - YouTube

Animate a Camera Fly-through on Scroll Using Theatre.js and React Three Fiber | Codrops

VisGL

Vis.gl
Frameworks for WebGL-powered large-scale data visualization (powering Uber)

Home | deck.gl
visgl/deck.gl: WebGL2 powered visualization framework high-performance visualizations of large data sets

luma.gl
visgl/luma.gl: High-performance Toolkit for WebGL-based Data Visualization

visgl/hubble.gl: A client-side JavaScript library for animating data visualizations and rendering videos.

MathBox

Steven Wittens / mathbox · GitLab
MathBox² — Acko.net
MathBox² — Acko.net part 2

Voxel

voxel.js * blocks in yo browser
maxogden/voxel-engine: 3D HTML5 voxel game engine
s-macke/VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
voxel.css

Voxel Rendering Techniques – Michael Fogleman – Medium

MagicaVoxel
Voxel Critter Creator

Plotz Model Selection

Showcase

Hackery, Math & Design — Acko.net
How I built a wind map with WebGL – Points of interest