Sunflower Design Studios

Design, history, and interactive 3D on the web.

Sunflower Design Studios

Sunflower Design Studios is a design studio in San Jose. The studio publishes stories about design, local history, and the craft of building for the web, with interactive 3D where a picture alone will not do.

Five Domes, a Single Survivor: The Century Theaters of San Jose

Five domed theaters rose around Winchester Boulevard between 1964 and 1969. Four fell. Century 21 still stands. Read the history, then orbit the dome in 3D.

3D Demo Hub: Raptor, Orbit, and CLAC

Three interactive Three.js demos. Raptor configures the FlexPondi field unit. Orbit maps the homelab fleet on a globe. CLAC rolls a ball through a physics course.

3D Dome Viewer

Century 21 rebuilt to scale in the browser: 20 steel ribs, the 24-foot finial, the pylon sign, and a timeline from 1964 to today.

How the Website Was Built

Idea, research, draft, review, build, test, deploy, monitor, correct, improve. The pipeline behind this site, mapped to ITIL.