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Womp: Simple 3D for everyone?

“No downloads or grey apps with 1,000 buttons. Just your browser and your creativity”. The website http://www.womp.com presents itself colourfully and confidently and promises to make 3D modelling easy for everyone. Womp, an online 3D application, is currently still in the alpha phase and is still free to try out. The Womp team promises that Womp Alpha will remain 100% free. A “Pro version” with a wider range of functions is planned for later – the current version has only been released for about a month. A price does not yet seem to have been set.

With Womp 3d, primitive solids can easily be assembled into simple models using metaballs and Boolean operations. The principle is not new. The metaball algorithm has been around for a while. Anyone who remembers the "Organica" programme from more than 10 years ago, or currently knows MagicaCSG (bit.ly/magica_csg), which is also still in a very early development phase, can get an idea of the new, more modern variant Womp, which is completely browser-based. According to the Womp website, only the Chrome browser is currently fully supported. Metaballs are also supported by most major 3D programmes - including Blender, which is used in a commercial for Womp as an example of 3D that Womp users probably don't want. However, the Womp website also states that the developers of Womp are not on a mission to replace Blender. Womp wants to make it easy for beginners in particular to get started with 3D. Incidentally, it is emphasised that the American company Womp is run by women. Here, variants ...


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