Small web-based non-euclidean engine and IKEA simulator. Made with Vite and WebGPU. Inspired to make this because of experiences shopping IKEA as a kid, as well as SCP3008 (vaguely). View it here: https://appleroll.github.io/wierdikea
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Prepared for ship! Wrote some more in the README, including references used in my IKEA (I’m not trying to copy IKEA, but it can’t be completely different). Hopefully you all enjoy the product I’ve made, because I certainly did enjoy making it!
Still a few bugs, but they’re getting better and I’ve added the pallet things now. I think it should be close to shipping :)
Added these little pallette things and first blahajs, but they’re lacking textures and the pallette looks a bit off, will fix first thing tmrw
Fine-tuned some values, especially in movement. I decided it would be better to just hide the near threshold portal bug as a whole and compromise by having this wierd outline surrounding the portal. Maybe I’ll drop some insane IKEA lore explaining how it was a feature and not a bug
heheh funny bug, set the near plane threshold to 0 (EPILEPSY WARNING)
Placed some more shelves
Cleaned up the code, not much ig. Honestly, I don’t even know if I want to, and should, build the whole IKEA. I’ve been considering turning this into a noneuclidean IKEA storage simulation.
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The benefits of this is that it’s much easier to make while still keeping the potential for glTF objects for Blahaj and friends, and also makes it so my project is more narrowly focused, but the downsides is that it probably has less variance, and has not much room for future upgrades.
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I might implement the solution where it is a storage simulator for now, ship it, and later I can add code to turn it into a more “detailed” IKEA simulator if I decide graphic computing is for me.
Turns out, after spending 3 days on the bug, asking the Stardance Slack multiple times, having discussions with multiple chatbots, and also loosing maybe 10-15 strands of hair, I’ve finally done it. Turns out, the solution was to change a decimal place, from 0.1 to around 0.01.
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Not gonna lie, before this I had completely lost faith in this project. Like seriously. Maybe I’ll keep working on it now that this bug is solved.
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“Now Ethan, what exactly is the bug??” you may ask? Well, if you didn’t read my previous devlogs (or maybe i didnt write abt it, idk lol i kinda just.. forget most of my devlogs), I had an issue where there would be a frame of blue in between portal transitions. It completely ruined the “magic trick” of the noneuclidean IKEA.
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I can now sleep tonight in peace :)
Changed the soundtrack, and updated the home page! Not really much to say, same bugs as usual, same features to add, I haven’t been procrasting a lot not gonna lie these bugs are kinda hard to solve. It’s hard to blend when I should add based on IKEA and what to sacrifice based on what I can do.
Bit.. lacking… for a homepage, but uhh it’ll do for now
Just fixed a bug where the portal would have this weird wireframe surrounding it making it very obvious theres a portal here. However, I’ve been trying to fix the issue where for 1 frame something appears on the screen when u enter a portal. My guess on why this is is because since the portal is a very thin cube, the inside of the cube still exists, hence the blue part. This would require modifying my cube engine into a multi-object engine (pretty hard), but I will give it a try.
Worked on the shelving for the self-service area. Once I was finished with this, I realised that IKEA stores go counterclockwise, while mine is designed to go clockwise (in the clip I went clockwise bc the storage stuff are always at the end). Well… its a feature now
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After all, this project isn’t really designed to be that realistic. If it was super realistic, it wouldn’t be a single floor and it definitely won’t have buggy portals everywhere.
It is my pleasure to announce that we have undergone a name change. “Super Noneuclidean” just didn’t describe my project enough, so using my last 3 braincells left today I decided I should rename it to “wierd ikea simulator”.
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I know, I know, you might be thinking, “but why Ethan? This name sounds actually horrible”. Well, there’s a pretty good reason for this name, let me explain.
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A year ago, I was obsessed with state-of-the-art AI. And making money. Mainly the latter. But anyways, entrepeneurship is like 5% coding and 50% arguing to others about why your product is good, and another 45% fixing bugs and later headaches. I don’t exactly hate my experiences with AI, but I definitely need a break from corporate marketing and actually do something dumb for once. During the name change, I decided “super noneuclidean” didn’t have any “IKEA” in it, and I thought I could make it even more dumb, so using reverse psychology the dumbest name is the one that sounds the most plain, direct, and, well… dumb, hence my name.
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So far, this project has really saved my mentality, pretty cool indeed.
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(and yes I wrote on my last 2 braincells at 9pm while sleepy af. thanks for reading tho)
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It wasn’t a bug, it was just me forgetting to add a feature. In other words, I thought my code was broken when in reality I didn’t even code a recursive rendering system in the first place, so portals were always blue.
So… IKEA is going pretty well. The noneuclidean shell is basically complete. It’s time to work on some interior deco, but first I might have a bit of a look on the code and clean up some AI slop.
(Oh. yeah, and idk if IKEA has the yellow door thing world-wide. It does in my local IKEA, so I added it)
but now… its BLAHAJ TIME
Noneuclidean IKEA shell coming together nicely! Got the colours pretty right too. Only issue is that theres this wierd blue thing covering portals rendered behind portals, but that should be solved in another day
After numerous experiments, I have screwed up. I should’ve created the IKEA design before I started working on the Noneuclidean files, because now I have to delete all of them.
Well there goes my 8 hours
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Aight. It’s been a couple of weeks and i found a job (hooray), so unfortunately i havent been able to do much coding, except maybe plan the idea.
“Instead of building JUST a noneuclidean thing (bc everyone’s been doing that for years now), i make it an IKEA simulator”
bc we ALL know that IKEA rooms are secretly noneuclidean mazes that trap us into buying 347 chairs (speaking from experience trust)
I currently have 2 things made: a noneuclidean tunnel, and a noneuclidean room where it looks like a 4-roomed house, but it actually has 6 rooms (note: still broken), so I think I can get started with the first floor and the market-hall for now. A quick search of “ikea layout” shows a redditor’s very useful intentionally-confusing floor plan, so I will be using that with a few adjustments to fit in with my idea
we got some few problems
nevertheless, im quite excited about this project, i will continue working on it. my blueprint is attatched here
I’ve had some exams recently, so I didn’t really do much. I added another room where the inside is longer than the outside which is cool, but it has a bug where the block looks really close to the portal? I don’t now how to describe it lol. Anyways, I’ll just leave it for now, once I finish my exams I’ll continue working on it.
After like 5 hours of working. THE. BUG. FINALLY. FIXEDDDD.
I can’t believe it. It literally took 3 lines of code changing. But well, it was a good experience.
Now, everything shown in the other portal looks proportionate. Also, if you didn’t notice, i changed some files, like adding the noneuclidean code to the noneuclideans/ folder.
Okay. I’ve just spent the past 3 hours of my day fixing a bug. And it still hasn’t been fixed. Apparently since the portal makes the tunnel look shorter, it also makes the other side of the tunnel look further away. I’ve made some… adjustments (ahem hardcodes values).. into the portal side detection script and it seems to be working, but i have to find a way to change the portals and stuff without doing a complete refresh, something i need to find a way to do.
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In the attatched screen recording, you can see how the rectangular prism looks zoomed in at the start, and on the other side, a rectangular prism with the same distance looks further away.
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Oh well, I’ll probably fix it tommorrow.
Split my code into modular pieces. Not a big change, but definitely makes my project look less confusing.
So… I decided to completely redo my project.
yeah apparently i got the definition of hyperbolic space wrong???
idk i watched a yt video and i decided to make one of those shorter-on-the-inside corridors. So what I did is that I salvaged the portal thing, and I placed one that led from one side of the corridor to the other, so its shorter.
It has a few bugs, but it think its working right.
I got my handy AI to add the famous round ball (hyperbolic space), as well as a portal (i think it worked????)… and it ran out of credits (that’s fine though, I think my brain still has some credits left)
It kinda broke the Ames room thing, but I’m still learning the theory so that’s fine I’ll fix it first thing tmrw
Just started! I got the bare, bare bones working. Still working out how to do things, but it’s a start!
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