Skewed

Skewed is a Typescript package for generating SVG of 3D graphics in real-time. It has basic dynamic lighting, orthographic cameras, a set of built in shapes, and supports arbitrary meshes too.

Use it to make simple 3D infographics, 3D web-games, or generate 3D SVG files for importing into vector editors like Figma/Illustrator (Ie. make 3D icons).

Here's a Live demo. Docs coming soon.

Usage

1. npm install skewed
2. Reference the live demo's source code. More API examples coming soon. In the meantime

Contributing

Setup

1. Install dependencies
   1. Node.js
   2. pnpm
2. Clone and go into the folder

   git clone git@github.com:seflless/skewed.git
   cd skewed
   

Dev

To serve up the workbench web-page and rebuild on code changes run the following.

pnpm dev
# Open the workbench page at http://localhost:3000/

Building

pnpm build

Testing

TBD

Publishing to NPM

Do the usual npm version bump then publish.

# Make sure tests pass. `pnpm test` (we should automate this in a publish command)
pnpm build
npm version <major|minor|patch>
git push; git push --tags
npm publish

Test

Using vitest, the test are rerun whenever you change related code.

pnpm test

Watch Tests

TODO: Do we need to put in a difference command for the CLI?

Prio Art

Here are some cool existing project I found after starting this. In no particular order:

ZDog

• Project Website
• Github repo
• Great article covering it: https://css-tricks.com/zdog/
• I found this one when looking for ideas about how to light 3D spheres.
• Love the cool art style in the demos that it's well suited too.
• Finding a good artist/art-style to use as guodance (and demos) will go really far. The homepage demo is based on this 2D art: https://www.robindavey.co.uk/#/nippu/
• There's no lighting support, but that really simplifies things for this art style.
  • Here's an example mini town where stylistic lighting (really just contrasting planes) is used
• This influenced me into focusing on toon shading style lighting/graphics too (As allow specifying an amount of shades gradients)
• The documentation is great
  • The style is fun and matches the engines aesthetic
  • Love the coverage of topics like z-fighting, how it works, and how to work with it
• It's making me consider supporting a canvas renderer
  • Would be better for mixing into other canvas rendering (Is this true for WebGL, or is copying from canvas to WebGL textures slow?)
  • Read: Canvas or SVG?
• Rendering with SVG without Illustration
  • I'd been thinking about doing this same approach, allowing people to take control of rendering order to mix compositions into other HTML/SVG
• See some of the Feature Requests and discussions
  • Supporting Perspective cameras, not just ortho
    • I like encouraging ortho only (and variants like oblique/cabinet)
    • It should be more performant when only translating camera and objects, that's a good thing
    • I'm with this comment, it doesn't play well with SVG curve capabilities.