Turn Anything into an Apple-Style 3D Website (I Did It with a Bowl of Ramen)

I made an Apple launch page for a bowl of ramen. "Ramen Pro Max". Scroll down and every ingredient gets its own product shot, with its own spec card ("A17 Noodle Engine", "18-hour tonkotsu"). Then they all rain into the bowl and it turns into the finished ramen. Then there's a flavor picker and a Buy button.

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1. The stack

npm create vite@latest ramen-pro-max -- --template vanilla
cd ramen-pro-max
npm i three gsap lenis
npm i -g @gltf-transform/cli

2. Generate every piece as its own model in Tripo

The key idea: don't generate one model of the whole thing. Generate the finished product once (the hero), then every part separately. That's what lets the site pull it apart and put it back together.

In Tripo Studio: Model → Text to 3D, paste a prompt, hit Generate. Each one takes about 2 minutes.

I added this style line to the end of every ingredient prompt so they all match:

The hero (the finished bowl):

The ingredients:

Export each one as GLB and drop them in public/models/ramen/ as hero.glb, bowl.glb, noodles.glb and so on.

Doing your own product? Same recipe. One prompt for the finished thing, then one prompt per part (a sneaker = sole, upper, laces, insole, box).

3. Shrink the models for the web

Tripo models are big and detailed (mine were around 70 MB each). For a website you want around 1 MB. One command per model:

gltf-transform optimize hero.glb public/models/ramen/hero.glb \
  --compress meshopt --texture-compress webp --texture-size 1024 \
  --simplify-ratio 0.05 --simplify-error 0.002

Bump --texture-size to 2048 for the hero model if you want it extra crisp.

4. The prompt for Opus 5.5

This is the prompt to get the site built. Paste it with your models already in public/models/ramen/:

Then iterate. My first version showed the whole exploded stack at once and looked messy. What fixed it was telling Opus: one ingredient at a time, same size, centre stage, like a product film.

5. Code snippets that make it work

Normalise every Tripo model

Every GLB comes in at a different scale and offset. This wraps it so it's centred and exactly size units big:

import * as THREE from 'three';

export function normalise(object, size = 1, { anchor = 'center' } = {}) {
  object.updateMatrixWorld(true);
  const box = new THREE.Box3().setFromObject(object);
  const dim = box.getSize(new THREE.Vector3());
  const c = box.getCenter(new THREE.Vector3());
  const s = size / Math.max(dim.x, dim.y, dim.z, 1e-6);
  const pivot = new THREE.Group(), holder = new THREE.Group();
  holder.add(object);
  holder.scale.setScalar(s);
  holder.position.set(-c.x * s, anchor === 'bottom' ? -box.min.y * s : -c.y * s, -c.z * s);
  pivot.add(holder);
  return pivot;
}

Load with Meshopt (because we compressed them)

import { GLTFLoader } from 'three/examples/jsm/loaders/GLTFLoader.js';
import { MeshoptDecoder } from 'three/examples/jsm/libs/meshopt_decoder.module.js';

const loader = new GLTFLoader();
loader.setMeshoptDecoder(MeshoptDecoder);
const gltf = await loader.loadAsync('/models/ramen/egg.glb');
scene.add(normalise(gltf.scene, 1.8));

Fix "glassy" food

Some exported materials come out see-through or metallic. Food and ceramic should be solid and matte:

function solid(obj) {
  obj.traverse((o) => {
    if (!o.isMesh) return;
    [].concat(o.material).forEach((m) => {
      m.transparent = false; m.opacity = 1; m.depthWrite = true;
      m.metalness = Math.min(m.metalness ?? 0, 0.15);
      m.roughness = Math.max(m.roughness ?? 1, 0.6);
    });
  });
  return obj;
}

The "product film" scroll: one ingredient at a time

p is how far you've scrolled through the pinned section (0 to 1). Each ingredient slides up into the centre, holds, then slides out as the next one comes in:

const n = ingredients.length;
const f = THREE.MathUtils.clamp((p - 0.05) / 0.79, 0, 1) * n; // which ingredient we're on

ingredients.forEach((part, j) => {
  const e = f - j; // < 0: not yet, 0..1: on stage, > 1: gone
  const enter = THREE.MathUtils.smootherstep(e, -0.15, 0.22);
  const exit = j === n - 1 ? 0 : THREE.MathUtils.smootherstep(e, 0.78, 1.15);
  part.position.y = (1 - enter) * -2.6 + exit * 2.6;   // rise in, rise out
  part.scale.setScalar(part.fit * (0.85 + 0.15 * enter)); // same visual size for all
  part.rotation.y = time * 0.35;                        // slow turntable
  setOpacity(part, enter * (1 - exit));
});

Everything drops into the bowl

After the last ingredient, they hang in a ring over the empty bowl and fall in one after another. Then the empty bowl crossfades into the finished hero model:

const asm = THREE.MathUtils.smoothstep(p, 0.85, 0.98); // assembly progress
ingredients.forEach((part, j) => {
  const a = (j / n) * Math.PI * 2;
  const k = THREE.MathUtils.clamp(asm * 1.6 - (j / n) * 0.6, 0, 1); // staggered
  part.position.set(
    Math.cos(a) * 1.3 * (1 - k),
    THREE.MathUtils.lerp(1.05, 0.1, k * k), // gravity-ish ease
    Math.sin(a) * 0.6 * (1 - k)
  );
  part.scale.setScalar(part.fit * 0.45 * (1 - k * 0.7));
});
heroBowl.visible = asm > 0.7; // the finished Tripo bowl takes over

Steam (cheap and convincing)

A few hundred points with a soft round texture, each with a "life" from 0 to 1. Rise, drift, fade, respawn:

for (let i = 0; i < N; i++) {
  life[i] += dt * 0.25;
  if (life[i] > 1) life[i] = 0;
  const a = seed[i] * 6.283, r = 0.6 * (1 - life[i] * 0.3);
  pos[i * 3]     = Math.cos(a) * r + Math.sin(t * 0.8 + seed[i]) * 0.25 * life[i];
  pos[i * 3 + 1] = 0.4 + life[i] * 1.3;
  pos[i * 3 + 2] = Math.sin(a) * r;
}
steamGeometry.attributes.position.needsUpdate = true;

Fade each puff with sin(life * PI) in the shader so it appears and disappears smoothly.

6. Code vs Tripo (why you need both)

I also asked Opus to build the ramen out of pure code: cylinders, discs, torus rings. It works, it reads as ramen, but it looks like a low-poly game asset. Swap in the Tripo model and it suddenly looks like a product shot. That's the whole point:

• Opus 5.5 is great at the experience: the scroll story, the animation timing, the layout, the copy.
• Tripo is great at the object: real shape, real textures, in one line of text.

7. Do it with your own thing

1. Pick an object (sneaker, headphones, your product, your mascot).
2. Generate the finished object + each part in Tripo.
3. Compress them with gltf-transform.
4. Paste the prompt from step 4 into Opus 5.5, swapping "ramen" for your thing and the spec card jokes for yours.
5. Iterate on the scroll story until every section has one clear shot.

Post it and tag me @avi_vashishta29, I want to see what you make.

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