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Ancient Brain
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An online coding and hosting platform for everyone.

34 countries 2,151 coders 9,328 worlds 506,127 runs 3.2 million lines of code Update stats

Code Studio
324 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Sarthak Sethi
Created: 2 Dec 2023
Modified: 16 Feb 2024
Generate and visualize Three.js code and images. Need to enter your own OpenAI API key. Two mode...

1. Shapes
173 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "3D Game Program... United States

Created: 16 Aug 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Port of code "shapes" from Ch.1

P5 translate ver...
15 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 21 Sep 2023
Modified: 21 Sep 2023
World to examine P5 "translate"

Collision World
1377 runs ♦ 4 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 21 Sep 2017
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Demo of Physics API. Blocks fall under gravity and collide. Can modify gravity, friction, etc. S...

An online coding platform

Ancient Brain is an online coding and hosting platform for everyone.
See Introduction and List of features.

Coders: Make 3D worlds and share them with friends. Clone and edit other people's worlds. Make multi-user games and environments. Make touch mobile games. Upload your own images, music and 3D models. Embed your worlds on other sites.

Teachers: Run courses in coding and coding for kids and AI coding. Run programming practicals in 3D graphics or 2D graphics or text, with many features designed for teachers. Safely edit and run student code.

Learners: Do courses in coding and coding for kids and AI coding. Clone other people's worlds and change one or two lines. What's the worst that could happen?

Gamers: Play the endless game worlds the coders make. Come and browse an ever-growing archive of games.

Researchers: Upload problems, tender for solutions, test and rank them. Make hybrid AI systems from the code of multiple authors.

Getting started

You can "run" any of the 9,328 programs or "Worlds" by clicking on them. But this is also a coding site, where you can code your own Worlds. You can use this site to learn to code. Or show off your creations if you are an experienced coder.

Basically you can read more about how to get started running Worlds and coding:

Getting started

Or you can leap straight into coding with our starter tutorial:

P5 Starter tutorial

Programming course

Ancient Brain has a course in how to program from scratch.
You will get to make "Worlds" like the following. Click on them to run them.

Tutorial 2.5
163 runs ♦ 1 like
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 4 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
The random() Function

Tutorial 2.1
546 runs ♦ 1 like
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 4 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Variables in p5.js (mouseX, mouseY)

Tutorial 7.8 variant
369 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 6 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Tutorial 7.8 with music and other uploaded images, including from other users. Click on the images.

Tutorial 7.3
225 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 5 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Arrays of Objects

Introduction to Programming

AI course

Ancient Brain has a set of AI programming exercises, with videos and notes. For use in any AI course.
You will get to modify "Worlds" like the following. Click on them to run them.

Character recogn...
1800 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 5 Jul 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Neural network to do character recognition from image database and from handwriting in real-time.

GA (Finnegans Wake)
996 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 2 May 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Genetic Algorithm to write the first line of Finnegans Wake.

Breadth-first se...
2778 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 30 Apr 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Breadth-first search with a Force-directed graph.

A star
3957 runs ♦ 1 like
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 1 May 2019
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
"A Star" algorithm to find shortest path through maze.

AI exercises

WebGL course

Ancient Brain has a short course in JavaScript 3D graphics ("WebGL") programming.
You will get to make "Worlds" like the following. Click on them to run them.

Tutorial 18.8
90 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
3D Custom Shapes

Tutorial 18.3
63 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Light and Material

Tutorial 18.7
410 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Tutorial 18.7 with full canvas, resized model, sound. Texture on box is image from another user.

Tutorial 18.5
91 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 9 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Camera and Perspective

WebGL course

Starter Worlds for Three.js

These are the main "Starter Worlds" that use the Three.js library (which tends to give the most advanced graphics).

You can Clone and Edit all of these and change their code. Look for a section at the top called the "Tweaker's Box". This contains the easiest things to change.

Complex World
8198 runs ♦ 5 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 1 Oct 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
World with a Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy, random maze, skybox, music.

MineCraft
1116 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 27 Nov 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Use keyboard to draw blocks like in MineCraft. Use arrow keys and PgUp, PgDn to draw. Can save w...

Zombie Death Baby
771 runs ♦ 1 like
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Jun 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
How to make a fun touch game for mobile. Touch drag and tap objects. Mouse drag and click object...

Castle World
786 runs ♦ 4 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Nov 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Demo of how to insert 3d model into World. Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy. Splas...

Touch World
457 runs ♦ 1 like
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 6 Jan 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
How to override default touch handling. Mobile: Touch drag moves agent, touch pinch zooms camera...

Simple World
1645 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 1 Oct 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Simple World with a Mind-controlled agent, randomly-moving enemy, paint blocks with texture.

Websockets boxes
802 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 29 Feb 2020
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Demo of Websockets in 3D World. Click to change the boxes on the other user's machine, while the...

User-controlled ...
914 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 12 Feb 2017
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
3d model World. User controlled on desktop. Keyboard arrows to move. Switch to "Move with" camer...

One Cube World (...
1113 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 11 Apr 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Simple starter World (Three.js version). Built-in camera control.

Model World
856 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 8 Nov 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Demo of how to insert 3d models into World. Mind-controlled agent, actively-pursuing enemy. Skybox.

Blank Three.js World
1503 runs ♦ 2 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 20 Nov 2016
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
A simple starter World. An Array of spheres. Painted with textures. Random motion.

Password Websock...
66 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Starter user Ireland

Created: 14 Nov 2022
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Password version of "Websockets boxes"

Random Worlds

Here are some random Worlds that have had more than 30 runs. Reload for more.

Text to 3D Graph...
191 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Antoine Podvin
Created: 2 Dec 2023
Modified: 4 Feb 2024
Create 3D Graphics scenes from text instructions. Uses text instructions to call OpenAI GPT API ...

CA1-2nd world
264 runs ♦ 0 likes
By HaoIoCheong Ireland

Created: 15 Nov 2021
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "CA1-1st world " by HaoIoCheong

Character recogn...
33 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Deval Oza India (भारत)

Created: 26 Nov 2021
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "Character recognition neural network" by "Coding Train" project

Cube World (P5) ...
42 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Tobi Olaoye
Created: 20 Sep 2022
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "One Cube World (P5)" by Tobi Olaoye

Character recogn...
89 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Aishwarya Ramesh
Created: 18 Nov 2021
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Doodle Recognition- 21260609

Hardik's Breadth...
39 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Hardik Mangla
Created: 11 Oct 2023
Modified: 15 Oct 2023
Clone of "Breadth-first search " by "Coding Train" project

Tutorial 5.1 (1)
40 runs ♦ 0 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 4 Sep 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Function Basics

Coding Challenge 1
72 runs ♦ 2 likes
By "Coding Train" p... United States

Created: 13 Aug 2018
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Starfield

A star (clone by...
150 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Prathmesh Lad
Created: 21 Oct 2021
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "A star" by "Coding Train" project

Breadth-first se...
50 runs ♦ 0 likes
By Fergus
Created: 27 Oct 2020
Modified: 17 Sep 2023
Clone of "Breadth-first search " by "Coding Train" project

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