Shapespark

Shapespark is a company that we have started with my friends Wojtek and Jagoda and that has been the center of our attention during the last couple of months.

Our goal is to build a tool for professional architects and interior designers to create WebGL-based real-time interactive visualizations. We focus on quality of visualizations, we use physically-based rendering techniques to calculate lighting, which is crucial for giving 3D scenes a sense of realism. We are also experimenting with Oculus Rift, which turns out to be quite a useful tool for presenting architectural designs.

Our first visualization already got complimented by many WebGL folks, including Mr.doob, the famous author of the Three.js library :D.

Overall this is a very interesting venture, with so many new areas to explore. You can expect more WebGL related content and demos on this blog, although we will probably start a Shapespark blog at some point.

By the way, if you are an interior designer or an architect that works with SketchUp (or maybe you know someone who is?) and you would like to have a real-time, browser-based visualization created from a SketchUp model, please let us know. Our product is not released yet, but we would like to already start working with customers to create such visualizations.