03 — ABOUT
R&D

A rendering research project by Grafikui. Built to find the limits of real-time WebGL in the browser.

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THE PROJECT

MOD-15 is a self-initiated R&D project by Grafikui — a design engineering practice based in London. No client brief. No deliverable. Just a question: how far can you push real-time 3D in a Next.js app without reaching for a video file?

Two experiments, one architecture. Every model is a live GLB on the GPU. Every animation is driven by scroll position. No pre-renders, no sprite sheets, no theatre.

THE STACK

React Three Fiber handles the render loop and scene graph. Custom GLSL shaders are injected via onBeforeCompile at material compile time. Scroll sync runs inside useFrame — no intermediary, no state updates, just window.scrollY mapped directly to uniforms and camera vectors each tick.

React Three FiberGLSL / onBeforeCompileSimplex NoisedreiWebGLGSAPNext.jsTypeScriptBlender

GRAFIKUI R&D

MOD-15 is one of several open experiments running at Grafikui — a design engineering practice building the interface layer for AI-native products.

grafikui.com