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Show HN: I turned my quote collection into a walkable 3D library (jakubhalmes.com)

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Since 2017, each time I finish a book I save a single quote from it. I like revisiting them sometimes, for example at the end of the year or just. This collection is available as plain text on my website.

So I thought it may be fun to ask the agents to port this into a 3D library where I can actually walk around and pick up the books, and I think it sort of worked! I'm not sure this is that interesting for people other than me – those are my books! – but I just find it really cool that you can just do one-off random things like this with minimal effort.

Only available on desktop, since movement is WASD + mouse.

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pseingatl
I've been looking like this for a long time. It would be perfect for a knowledge base of documents. You could have contracts sorted by subject matter, torts, procedural rules, what have you. Recalls wandering in the stacks to find books whose title and author you didn't know. How did you make it?
jac08h
The quotes are sorted by year as plain-text and the library uses three.js. I added link to the code to the description, but this is vibe-coded project where I didn't see much of the code.
olooney
I've been collecting quotes for a long time (about twenty years now) and have recently been thinking of doing something interesting with them. For example, I recently added a flashcard "game" to my quote page:

https://www.oranlooney.com/quotes/

I've did something similar to your 3D viewer once, but for all possible solutions to the Soma cube:

https://www.oranlooney.com/demos/soma-forest/

The way that works is it uses t-SNE to embed the solutions in a 2D manifold based on similarity. This is completely different than John Conway's SOMAP solution.

In theory I could do something similar for quotes, passing each through an embedding model, computing the n^2 semantic distances, and using t-SNE to flatten that to 3D manifold, and using the resulting point to select the row, book, and shelf in a library.

Are you planning to make your 3D library code open source?

jac08h
Cool!

I added the link to the description, is just nested in the webpage code.