Five small worlds
A printed selection of interactive 3D pieces that run entirely in the browser. Each one is both experiment and finished object: a place to work a technique out to the pixel.
Jolan De Nef
jolandenef.dev
Projects dossier
Issued · 26 Oct 2026
Flag Wave
Place · The drafting table
A long pennant printed in the logo's two inks, flying from its pole and fraying into halftone dots that drift off on the wind. Hover it to stir up a gust.
- Cloth shader
- Halftone dissolve
- Particles
Mechelen
Place · Hometown, Mechelen
The old town inside the ring, every roof, facade and canal set as a two-ink print: red and cyan plates, halftone shadows and a register that never quite lines up.
- Baked data maps
- Halftone shader
- Two-ink print
Planet
Place · A world of your own
A tiny planet that keeps itself in balance: rabbits graze and hide in the grass, foxes hunt the shore, birds flock the sky. Tune the water, colours and inhabitants live.
- Procedural noise
- Instancing
- Ecosystem sim
Flow Field
Place · Sint-Rombouts, Mechelen
A drone-scanned cathedral tower rebuilt from two million particles that drift, scatter and settle back into stone.
- GPGPU
- Point cloud
- Flow field
Stone Face
Place · Your webcam
A bust of tumbling stone shards that reads your face and mirrors every expression, live and entirely in your browser.
- Face tracking
- Instancing
- Physics
Uses your webcam