Building a Real-Time 3D Face Mask with MediaPipe, Threlte and Three.js

MediaPipe's face landmarks, Google's canonical face model, and Three.js combine to create a real-time textured 3D face mask, with specific attention to topology and UV mapping.

Codrops

10 min read

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Stories from Sunday, 6 September 2026

UX & Thinking

UX Collective

Thinking

AI canvas, Synthetic self, The prompt is the product

The prompt becomes the product in an AI canvas, creating a synthetic self through generative design.

6 Sept

Codrops

Inspo

Building an Infinite Loom: Unravelling Images into Threads with Three.js

An experimental Three.js demo transforms images into flowing ribbons, weaving them together and unraveling them as they move across the screen, using separate geometry for each thread.

Reading and writing are interfaces. And AI can reduce their friction.

Reading and writing function as interfaces, and artificial intelligence offers the potential to decrease friction within these fundamental human interactions.

AI is making development faster. But where did the work go?

AI accelerates specific development stages, but the article questions where the displaced work goes within the broader product development ecosystem.

Unwinding the great tech power grab

Movements like Neo-Luddism and Permacomputing are emerging to reclaim power over technology, addressing how it has atrophied civic engagement and democratic accountability.

JudgmentKit

JudgmentKit is a new layer for AI-generated user interfaces, guiding AI to build the correct interface for a user's work by defining necessary activities and decisions before component composition.

4 Sept2 min read

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Anish Acharya suggests that successful company building now involves creating a series of loops, emphasizing distribution as a crucial, discovered moat in the AI era.