Behind the site

This site builds its own screenshots

Every project image here is rendered by the same engine you interact with — a note on how the site works, and why.

by Greg·Aug 1, 2026

Every project on this site is a small program. Not a drawing of a shelf — a build-step program that generates the shelf, the cut list, and the assembly steps for whatever dimensions you punch in. The 3D figures in these posts aren't screenshots I exported once; they're views into that program, rendered live in your browser.

The step stool — the first project, and still the test bed for everything.
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Fig 1The step stool — the first project, and still the test bed for everything.

One engine, three surfaces

The same code path renders three things: the interactive builder, these embedded figures, and the static images social media crawlers see. The server keeps a headless browser warm with the CAD kernel booted, so a poster like the one above is the actual engine output — if I change a joint, every image on the site regenerates on the next deploy.

The cutting board — one crosscut, a roundover, a hanging hole. Walnut, recently color-matched to a real board.
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Fig 2The cutting board — one crosscut, a roundover, a hanging hole. Walnut, recently color-matched to a real board.

More notes like this to come — tools, the shop, and the odd rabbit hole. The projects themselves live in the gallery, and each one opens in the parametric builder.