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Archie Auburn
Archie Auburn

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Discovering the pretext in a fun way

This is day 110 of my web dev diary, and today I decided to try something that I've been getting more and more interested in during the past few weeks - the brand new pretext npm module that lets you dynamically update text layouts using HTML's Canvas.

I built this (pretty simple) demo where a goose follows your cursor wherever you move it. Was a very rewarding and fun experience (and also my first encounter with Google's Jules to help out with using the Three.js library which I'm still not that familiar with).


(the part that have eaten quite a chunk of my time was the goose's rig animation in Blender, which is the first time I ever opened Blender or had any experience with animating a 3D model)

I want to make it a bit more visually appealing and maybe place some of my favorite book quotes in place of the dummy lorem ipsum, but this is the job for the next day. Overall, really happy with what I've achieved and learned so far!

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