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Lots of javascript for a "css-only" tool. Looks like just the rendering is css-only.


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jonahx11/04/2025

You can open up your terrain in codepen with nothing but CSS/HTML, and it renders fine. It's just not interactive / draggable anymore.

So the JS is only being used, essentially, as a nice UI for configuring your terrain and the camera angle from which it's viewed.

This is still an incredible feat.

bogwog11/04/2025

I guess it'd be more accurate to call it a "Generator for CSS-Only Terrain", as the generator itself is not CSS-only.

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embedding-shape11/04/2025

Not to mention of all of those pesky HTML tags and images, clearly not CSS-only, what a fraud.

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MarsIronPI11/04/2025

Yep. Can confirm this does not work with JS disabled. I'm disappointed by the misleading title.

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