Personal project

INFERNVS

Dante's Hell as a map you can fly through, with every point cited.

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  • A 3D cutaway of Dante's Inferno in plain JavaScript and Three.js, with no framework.
  • 130 points from the poem, each tied to a canto and line, with the Italian and Longfellow's translation on each card.
  • 110 original pixel sprites and 33 animated scenes.
  • Built in a week in October 2026.

INFERNVS is a map of Dante's Inferno that you fly through. Every soul, guardian and place is a point with a canto and line citation, and its card shows the Italian line and Longfellow's translation. The journey plays through the cantos in order, or you can scrub the canto bar yourself.

Credits: Dante Alighieri's Inferno, in the 1867 translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (public domain). 3D drawing by Three.js (MIT license).

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