personal / site / archived
SPACE BAR
A site for spacebar.la with a three.js particle text effect driven by custom GLSL shaders.
- BPM
- 172
- GRADE
- B
- LEVEL
- 7
- RELEASES
- 0
- YEARS
- 2021–2022
Particles Spelling Nothing
Two days in June 2021 making a word out of moving dots. spacebar.la got a static three.js site: SPACE BAR extruded from an Enriqueta font loaded as a JSON typeface, scattered into a particle field, and animated with GLSL shaders I wrote by hand.
The shaders were the fun part. Writing the vertex and fragment shaders myself meant I got to decide what every point did over time. It was a name, a visual and a domain, and that's all it needed to be.
June 2021 was one of the busiest stretches of my working life, mostly client work, and this was something I got to make for fun.
led to
- tish-shadertoy2026custom GLSL particle text
- schlop.ai2026WebGL particle text
- schlop2026three.js and custom shaders