Ribbonlab: A Free Browser Editor for 3D Animated Backgrounds

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A developer built Ribbonlab, a free browser-based editor for creating 3D animated backgrounds, over a few evenings of spare time. Claude Code wrote most of the code, while the developer defined the tool's features and reviewed each change visually in the browser. The article focuses on refining three areas that required the most effort: textures, the ribbon's shape, and the settings. Silk texture was reworked from a thick, veined look into fine, band-following threads, and new textures were designed to respond to the ribbon's motion and light. Iterative fixes to glitter, fibre optic, and lenticular textures, along with slider behavior, made the settings more consistent across the 23 available textures.

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