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		Ask HN: Create interactive animations like on ciechanow.ski?
		2 points by cloogshicer on Nov 4, 2023 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments
		I've admired animations like the ones on [1] and I'd like to create some myself. What tool/library would you pick? Looking at the source of the above site [2], the author seems to hand-craft them using the canvas API, but man, that seems really difficult/cumbersome. [1] https://ciechanow.ski/gps [2] https://ciechanow.ski/js/gps.js

alokjnv10 on Nov 4, 2023 [–]

You can use threejs for that

cloogshicer on Nov 5, 2023 | [–]

Thanks for the suggestion!

The problem with threejs is that (I believe) the 2d support isn't that great. A lot of custom code is necessary, and often the results don't look great. See here for example:

https://observablehq.com/@grantcuster/using-three-js-for-2d-...

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