u/Correct_Tangelo_5976

I wanted to explore Japanese Kanji not by dictionary order or radical lookups, but by what they actually mean. So I built Kanji-Verse — a web tool that scatters around 2,800 Kanji across a 3D space, where the closer two characters sit, the closer their meanings.

Live Link: https://mu-777.github.io/kanji-verse/

What you can do:

• Drift through 2,800+ Japanese Kanji in 3D — drag to look around, scroll to zoom.
• Discover unexpected neighbors — 木 (tree), 林 (woods), and 森 (forest) all sit side by side.
• Jump to a character — type a Kanji like 愛 and the camera flies straight to it.
• Search by meaning — type an English word like "love" and every matching Kanji lights up.
• Tap a star for checking its readings and meanings.
• Share a video about Kanji that you find.

Runs entirely in the browser — no install, no sign-up.

It's a personal hobby project so I'd love any feedback — UI/UX, performance, or features you'd like to see next. Thanks for checking it out and enjoy it!

Wanted to share my little side project: a 360° panorama viewer built entirely out of HTML + one SVG filter. No WebGL, no Three.js, no 3D library at all.

Live demo (drag to look around, scroll/pinch to zoom): https://mu-777.github.io/svg-360-viewer/why360svg.html

The whole trick is feImage + feDisplacementMap. You generate a "displacement map" PNG, feed it into the filter along with your 360° equirectangular panorama (dropped into a <pattern>), and the filter does all the warping that gives the 360°-ish perspective. The drag/zoom interaction is maybe 10 lines of JS — everything else is pure declarative SVG.

If you want to try it on your own image, there's a small generator here that spits out the displacement map + the SVG markup for you: https://mu-777.github.io/svg-360-viewer/

(No panorama handy? Wikimedia Commons has a category full of equirectangular ones you can test with.)

It's a pretty niche idea, but it was a fun rabbit hole to go down — I'd love for people to mess around with the demo, and if it ends up useful for an actual project of yours, even better.

And... This is my first post here, and I'm not English native, so apologies in advance if I'm breaking any rules/manner of this place