CSS Scene Workbench

When frontend developers tune a complex card flip, depth-of-field shadow, or 3D layered effect, they often end up guessing values back and forth between the preview window and the CSS file. This workbench reads the current page’s DOM, selectors, and styles, then places editable elements on a rotatable spatial canvas.

Developers can directly drag an element’s depth position, rotation axis, light direction, and shadow extent. Alongside the canvas, the affected CSS declarations update in real time, showing the original value, the revised value, and which selectors the change will touch. Hovering over any visual object also traces it back to its source rule.

Once the adjustment is right, the user selects “write back to branch,” and the product generates a readable CSS diff and preview link. Teams still review code through Git; reviewers can drag a timeline to compare the visuals before and after a change, ensuring other components using the same selector were not unintentionally altered.

The first version focuses on transform, opacity, filter, box-shadow, and stacking order for existing web components. It does not try to generate an entire page design or save the canvas as an unmaintainable proprietary scene file. The final deliverable is always CSS in the project.