Randomly generated 3D spaceships to print on your 3D printer, generated with WebGL

Cory Doctorow 4:04 pm Tue Oct 4, 2011

Dolf sez, "Dolf Veenvliet aka macouno of Entoforms fame has been working on some fun tools to generate 3D forms. Under the ShapeWright moniker Dolf has produced a random space ship generator entitled shipWright that generates unique configurations of space ships ready for 3D printing (and freely downloadable). You can also have a personalized Space Ship generated by your name, or whatever text you enter into the build system."

This is pretty cutting-edge browser stuff. To get Firefox to try it, I had to force WebGL on — type about:config into your location bar, then search for "webgl.force-enabled" and set it to "true."

(Thanks, Dolf!)

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