Lattice

Lattice grows a slowly rotating isometric structure from a field of extruded blocks whose heights ripple through noise and wave functions. Pure 2D canvas, faked into three dimensions, a study in getting dimensional richness without the weight of a 3D engine.

Real-time 3D is heavy, a whole engine, shaders, a bundle cost. But a huge amount of dimensional feeling can be faked with nothing more than isometric projection on a flat canvas. Lattice draws a grid of columns, extrudes each to a height driven by a moving noise field, and shades three faces to imply light.

The camera slowly orbits and responds to the cursor, so the structure feels sculptural and alive while staying cheap enough to run on a phone. It's a lesson we return to constantly: the perception of depth matters more than actual depth.

We've used descendants of this system for launch visuals, loading states, and the occasional generative sculpture that exists only as a moving image.