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Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

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alexaholic16 minutes ago

We used to do this during the Web 2.0 era with PNGs, GIFs and `progid:DXImageTransform` because back then you couldn't do it with standard CSS alone. Then as CSS (and MS!) evolved to enable it, the world moved on to flat UIs. It's ironic, isn't it?

dleeftink12 minutes ago

Remember motiongerm and the whole sleek 60fps flash design thingamabob? Bespoke interfaces everywhere

CSSer17 minutes ago

I really dislike how the dribbble/envato style somehow escaped containment into Claude and now I’m seeing it everywhere mixed with mediocre design layouts. I think to myself that maybe stuff like this will help counteract that but then I see it in use with 12px typography (the kubernetes 3D dashboard thing) and I recoil in horror. Please consider this a PSA: Claude doesn’t understand UX or good design principles out of the box. Please go hug a designer.

graypegg21 minutes ago

Nitpick, but elevation would make much more sense if you assumed a base plane + set a perspective, and then translate3d'd upwards on the Z axis. It would grow the size of the element as well.

Saying that, probably annoying to work with transformed DOM nodes, but the background being the only thing moving in the "bounce" example just stood out to me as weird.

Also, the texures seem to be just gradients or embedded texture data. Was thinking this would use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/V... and fall back to gradients/premade images for firefox.

tuvix14 minutes ago

Reminds me of VST GUIs, looks great! But, like other commenters have noted, I think a number of these controls might be desktop only, which is totally fine. There’s too much UI stuff centered around mobile anyway these days

isodev23 minutes ago

I love the concept but (at least on mobile Safari) most of it feels unusable.

__alexs34 minutes ago

This has mid 2000's LiteStep theme vibes.

troupo22 minutes ago

Isn't this just short-lived neumorphic design from a few years back? https://neumorphism.io/#e0e0e0

varispeed27 minutes ago

Looks cool, but I can't see myself using something like this. The readability is poor, it is difficult to gauge if button was pressed or what is selected.

But still, I love it!

drcongo32 minutes ago

You see a lot of this kind of look in AUv3 plugins on the iPad and I love it - it's so nice to have visually tactile interfaces rather than the flat shit that OSs have been forcing on us.