Thank you.
Nothing on this site was built in isolation. Every framework, every library, every shader technique, every person who gave honest feedback, this page is for all of them.
Polyxmedia runs on the shoulders of thousands of open source maintainers who do the quiet, unglamorous work of keeping the web usable. Most of them will never know I exist, and they do it anyway. That is the kind of generosity that makes this industry worth being part of.
This page is my attempt at giving credit where credit is due, the projects this site actually uses, the authors behind them, and the people whose input shaped the work. If you built one of these and I missed you, get in touch and I will fix it.
Frameworks & Runtime
The foundations everything sits on.
Design & Visuals
Everything visual on the site leans on these.
Tailwind CSS
Adam Wathan and the Tailwind Labs team
The styling system for the entire site. Utility classes all the way down.
Three.js
Mr.doob (Ricardo Cabello) and contributors
Powers every WebGL scene on the site, including the About page aurora.
Aurora Hero
The aurora shader on the About page specifically.
Aurora Borealis Shader
sabosugi on CodePen
The volumetric aurora raymarching shader behind the About page hero. Huge thanks to sabosugi for sharing this openly. Go check their other work, it is beautiful.
lil-gui
George Michael Brower
Used during development to tune the aurora settings before locking them in.
Shadertoy
Inigo Quilez and Pol Jeremias
The community where so many of the raymarching and noise techniques this site uses were first shared.
3D Models
Models used in the real-time scenes.
Blue whale
misaooo
The whale swimming through the homepage hero. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Thank you for sharing it.
Data, Backend & Infrastructure
Things that keep the lights on.
Security & Reliability
The layers you do not see until something tries to break them.
Content & Utilities
Small libraries that do one thing really well.
Tooling & Dev Experience
Things used to build, test, and ship.
The Web Itself
The platform and knowledge base everything is built on.
Mozilla and MDN Web Docs
Mozilla and contributors
The documentation that actually taught most of us how the web works.
Chromium
The Chromium Project
The browser engine powering so much of modern web development and testing.
Stack Overflow
Every single person who answered a question
Twenty years of free help that shaped every engineer on earth.
People
Friends, clients, and collaborators who shaped the work.
Mitch Sullivan
Founder, mitchs.ai
For trust, real feedback, and being the kind of client you actually want to build for.
Everyone who filed a bug report
The internet at large
If you took the time to tell me something was broken, thank you, seriously.
If you maintain open source, if you file bug reports, if you answer Stack Overflow questions at 2am for strangers, the web works because of you. Thank you.
André Figueira, Polyxmedia