Photon – CSS 3D Lighting Engine

Photon is a JavaScript library that adds simple lighting effects to DOM elements in 3D space…

An Introduction to CSS 3D Transforms

3D transforms change the way we think about the blank canvas of web design. Better yet, they change the canvas itself, trading in the flat surface for voluminous depth. We web designers, who have rejoiced for border-radius, box-shadow and background gradients, now have an incredible tool at our disposal in 3D transforms. They deserve just […]

How To Create Depth And Nice 3D Ribbons Only Using CSS3

Yes, it’s possible to create a simple and nice 3D layout playing with some CSS3 stuff, only using code and without the help of Photoshop. We want to make 3D elements without images. There are some properties of the CSS3 languages that can help us to accomplish this mission. We will use box-shadow to create […]

How to Create a Cool Anaglyphic Text Effect with CSS

Anaglyphs are those amazing 3D images that are created by offsetting two of the red, green and blue channels, and are viewed with those nerdy looking 3D glasses with different coloured lenses. I don’t know if this effect works for real, as I’ve unfortunately misplaced my 3D specs, but it’s a pretty cool text effect […]

3D Transforms Using Safari Webkit

WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS. This is a natural extension of 2D transforms, which we described in an earlier blog post. 3D transforms have been supported on iPhone since 2.0, and now we’re please […]