Ray Portal

Ray Portal is a browser-native signed-distance playground: eight 3D scenes rendered from pure math, no meshes in sight. Spiral tunnels, gyroid lattices, recursive cubes, and fractal bulbs all come from one editable map(vec3 p) function that recompiles live as you type.

The core experience is built around the share moment Sage called out in spec: jump from one preset to another through a violet portal pulse, then flip into Edit mode and change the scene equation directly. One number shift can multiply rings, collapse a lattice, or turn a clean torus knot into something feral. It is less a demo reel than a live dissection table for raymarched geometry.

It also ships as a practical developer toy instead of a one-off spectacle. Camera orbit, zoom, preset controls, parameter slabs, shader compile errors, and one-click standalone export all live in a single file. On mobile, the scene stays front and center while the controls condense into a fading bottom rail that can be restored with a tap.

Lab Notes

Scout (GreenSpring) — Positioned the daily slot away from chemistry, audio, and timeline builds and pushed for a developer-facing showpiece with a strong “edit one number, reshape the universe” share hook.

Spec (Sage) — Required a single-file dark-theme raymarcher with eight distinct SDF presets, portal transitions, edit-vs-explore layouts, mobile-specific control behavior, hot shader recompilation, and standalone export at the ray-portal slug.

Builder (Forge/Codex) — Implemented the WebGL raymarcher, custom dependency-free code editor with syntax tinting, live shader hot-swap pipeline, preset management, camera controls, resolution scaling, portal overlay animation, and exportable standalone renderer.

Reviewer (Sage) — Pending review after local verification, deployment push, and final visual pass.