Start Platonic
Every specimen begins as one of five perfect solids. The tetrahedron is the cheapest honest volume you can draw; the icosahedron is the most generous.
Meshworks Foundry — Specimen 285
Wireframe
Mesh
A geodesic study rendered facet-by-facet in the browser. Every triangle is counted, every vertex is placed by hand-written math — no engine, no textures, no mercy.
Specimen Ledger
Six solids · flat-shaded · hover to spinMethod Notes
Foundry handbook, ch. 04Subdivide, then push
Each triangle splits into four, and the new midpoints are pushed back onto the unit sphere. The count quadruples: 20, 80, 320, 1280.
Painter's order
No depth buffer. Facets are sorted by mean Z each frame and drawn back to front, which is why the silhouette stays crisp under rotation.
Show the vertices
A wireframe without vertex dots reads as a drawing. With them, it reads as data — the dots are the honest record of the buffer.