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Re: Spinning Diagrams with CSS

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Some commenters on HN and Twitter were curious how I made the spinning diagrams in a previous thing I wrote, so 8 months later I finally wrote down an explanation. (Previous HN thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32528769 )

Really neat. Would it be possible to make the letters go gray when they go "behind the cube" from POV of the camera?

Re: Spinning Diagrams with CSS

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Some commenters on HN and Twitter were curious how I made the spinning diagrams in a previous thing I wrote, so 8 months later I finally wrote down an explanation. (Previous HN thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32528769 )

Really neat. Would it be possible to make the letters go gray when they go "behind the cube" from POV of the camera?

Oh yeah that would look cool…

Possibly transparent faces of the cube with a particular `mix-blend-mode` that leaves the background color alone but dims letters that get behind it?

(That's just a wild guess, I don't know if it's actually possible.)

Re: Spinning Diagrams with CSS

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Some commenters on HN and Twitter were curious how I made the spinning diagrams in a previous thing I wrote, so 8 months later I finally wrote down an explanation. (Previous HN thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32528769 )

The spinning dimension adds such an information dense layer to the sum of cubes examples - a fantastic display of what is good data visualization.

Also, I’m quite jealous of your one letter domain.

Re: Spinning Diagrams with CSS

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Some commenters on HN and Twitter were curious how I made the spinning diagrams in a previous thing I wrote, so 8 months later I finally wrote down an explanation. (Previous HN thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32528769 )

The spinning dimension adds such an information dense layer to the sum of cubes examples - a fantastic display of what is good data visualization. Also, I’m quite jealous of your one letter domain.

Thanks!

Re: Spinning Diagrams with CSS

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Some commenters on HN and Twitter were curious how I made the spinning diagrams in a previous thing I wrote, so 8 months later I finally wrote down an explanation. (Previous HN thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32528769 )

I enjoyed the part referencing selected/highlighted areas rotating 'correctly'. I had to try it and it was just as pleasing as you said it would be.

Kudos for the write-up and kudos to the anonymous devs out there who wrote that portion of browser code.

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