SMRTR ProgrammingJun 1, 2026Hacker News

A CSS 3D Engine (no WebGL)

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PolyCSS renders 3D polygon meshes (OBJ, GLB, VOX) as real HTML elements using CSS `matrix3d` transforms, with lighting, shadows, textures, and animations. It minimizes DOM overhead by mapping each polygon to the simplest CSS primitive, with support for React, Vue, and plain JS.

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