Trivial space started as an art project back in 2012 to explore the possibilities of current web technologies as presentation platform for virtual art spaces.
Since a first prototype and exhibition in 2013, the main focus shifted to improve the technical workflow for creating and developing such virtual spaces. During a long research and learning period, some interconnected programming libraries and tools evolved, that improve the creation of web based virtual reality by code. Together they enable a development environment for WebGL scenes, with hot code and shader reloading as well as application and WebGL state preservation in live coding sessions.
This workflow builds on following libraries:
- Painter, a WebGL rendering engine tweaked for live coding / hot reloading.
- Libs, a collection of useful functions and helpers.
- Libs-wasm, collection of rust utilities for creative coding and geometric alorithms targeting web assembly.
This is the primary repository for trivial space sketches. Experiments and works are build here, while working both on the programming tools as well as on artistic expressions.
Basically everything here is work in progress. Intermediate results are
published to sketches.trivialspace.net,
which is just a statically hosted version of the public folder of this
repository.
A curated selection of sketches is presented at the trivial space website.
To install the playground locally and play with the sketches, clone this repository, and run
npm run git-init
npm run install
npm run dev
The drafts within a live coding environment will be available at
localhost:8000.
To build a create once run npx wasm-pack build --target web path/to/crate
To watch and rebuild a create on rust file changes run
npm run wasm path/to/crate
MIT, see the LICENSE file in the repository.
Copyright (c) 2016 - 2023 Thomas Gorny