geekdenz / Portfolio_2020

3D Interactive World, built using Three.js and Ammo.js

Tim-Hinnerk Heuer's Portfolio

Never design what you can steal - good programmers write good code; great programmers steal great code.

Credit to Ryan Floyd (creator of original)

This was my quarantine project! I decided to revamp my portfolio into an interactive 3D world built using Three.js for graphics ( WebGL under the hood) and Ammo.js, a port of the Bullet physics engine to JavaScript. I had an absolute blast making this!

Try it out! https://thheuer.com/

I wrote an article explaining the site here

Motivation

While exploring Google Experiments I discovered an amazing world of web rendering. There are so many incredible web projects out there, and I wanted to learn this technology. I was inspired by many awesome projects, but specifically examples from the official examples/documentation, Lee Stemkoski and Three.js Fundamentals.

Features

• Physics engine (Ammo.js) combined with 3D rendered objects (Three.js) for real-time movement, collision detection and interaction
• Desktop and Mobile Responsiveness with both keyboard and touch screen controls
• Raycasting with event listeners for user touch and click interaction
• FPS tracker to monitor frame rate/ rendering performance
• Asset compression with webpack plugin to help with quick site load times

Technology

• Three.js (3D Graphics)
• Ammo.js (Physics Engine)
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Express (Node.js framework)
• Webpack (module/ dependency bundler)
• HTML/CSS
• Hosted on Heroku
• Git (version control) / Github for code hosting

Usage

To use locally, clone the repository, install dependencies, run using webpack's dev server, and navigate to localhost:8080 in your browser:

npm i
npm run dev

License

The project is licensed under the MIT License.