HephaestusHeracles
Draw-Call Discipline
Treat draw calls as a published budget — one population, one call — so a forge stays honest when the count climbs.
Learning value: 5 of 5
Chamber 09
Atalanta
Performance & Optimization
Frame time, loading strategy, memory budgets, and the trade-offs behind them.
Relentless efficiency, nothing wasted. How sites stay smooth under heavy 3D and motion: LOD, culling, texture budgets, shader complexity, and degradation that still feels intentional.
6 entries · 3 run live
Lead exhibit · learning 5/5
- Draw-Call DisciplineHeraclesTreat draw calls as a published budget — one population, one call — so a forge stays honest when the count climbs.
- The Instanced ForgeAchillesFour thousand ingots drawn in a single call, with the draw-call figure published next to the frame time so the cost of the scene is stated rather than implied.
- Frame Budget ReceiptHeraclesPublish the millisecond budget next to the work — a receipt that makes optimisation a claim you can audit.
- Honest LODHectorLevel-of-detail that drops populations and post, not meaning — a degradation path you can defend on a phone.
- CSS Depth PlanesHectorParallax depth without a renderer — stacked planes, scroll velocity, and grain that still reads when WebGL never arms.
- Layered Depth FieldHectorFour translucent planes at different parallax depths producing depth with no canvas, no shader, and no main-thread cost.