3D is always a delight for everyone. jQuery can add a more delightful experience by helping out bring amazing 3D effects. From galleries to menus and text, 3D can take the user experience to the next level. This comprehensive list of jQuery 3D effects illustrates the creative use of jQuery in bringing out amazing effects.

1. jQuery 3D Theatre Carousel

The jQuery 3D Theatre Carousel is a stunning image carousel that gives a 3D effect. This awesome carousel presents images in a cool interactive 3d interface that periodically showcases several images. The 3D effect add amazing beauty to the images making your website more appealing. A best choice for portfolios and image showcases.

2. 3D Gallery View jQuery Plugin

The 3D Gallery View jQuery Plugin is an amazing system that displays images with 3D effects. The plugin allows you to display a series of pictures in a box defined and edited in random order. The images will be set in space in order to ensure that they are completely hidden (if not a rare overlap between the smaller images), then they will move when the mouse moves, creating a nice 3D effect. There will be a game of shadows and transparencies to make everything as realistic as possible.

3. Cloud Carousel – A 3d Carousel in Javascript

There are some attractive Adobe Flash based solutions for Cloud Carousel UI component, and while JavaScript versions exist, the commercial Flash products tend to have better aesthetics and polish. To redress the balance in JavaScript s favour, here is a jQuery Cloud Carousel plugin. This cloud carousel features optional auto-reflections, and the information contained in the Alt and Title tags of the images can optionally be displayed as you hover over each image.

4. Roundabout for jQuery

Roundabout is a jQuery plugin that converts a structure of static HTML elements into a highly customizable turntable-like interactive area. (And now, not just turntables, but many shapes!). In its simplest configuration, Roundabout works with ordered- and unordered-lists, however after some quick configuration, Roundabout can work with an set of nested elements. Oh, and Roundabout is released under the BSD license. If you are not sure what that is, you can find the entire license in the source c

5. Roundabout Shapes for jQuery

Roundabout Shapes provide even more paths along which your Roundabout can move. The current version of Roundabout Shapes offers eleven additional movements. Like its Roundabout companion, Roundabout Shapes is released under the BSD license. If you are unsure of what that means exactly, the entire license can be found in the source code. Please, have a ball with it!

6. jQuery Waterwheel Carousel

This jQuery plugin can display images with a cascading waterfall effect. It can be positioned either horizontally or vertically, and custom events can fired when an image rotates into the center or is clicked. The callback functions can be used to programatically trigger Lightbox-type effects, or load specific content into another region of the website. There are a lot of possibilities here.

7. jQuery k3dCarousel plugin

Verens needed a ?3D? carousel to rotate images. The currently available jQuery plugins for this purpose were either too large, too restricted (showing only 4 at a time is not good enough), or too old (not working in jQuery 1.4+). So Verens wrote his own.

8. jQuery Feature Carousel

This plug-in was intended to be used to display feature stories on a home page of a website, but can be used for any reason and is highly customizable. It will always display three images at the same time, with all the rest hidden behind the center image. I have detailed instructions for using the plug-in, as well as a list of all the options and some frequent questions.

9. jQuery CSS3 3D Animation

I have just finished a jQuery extension which adds support for modifying and animating CSS3 transformations in 2D and 3D. This was based on the 2D transform monkey-patch by Zachary Johnson. I needed this for a project I am working on which specifically targets Webkit (tablet devices), but I am releasing the code under the existing MIT license for anyone to use as they wish. I have put together a little demo to show how it can be used. This demo has been tested on Safari and Chrome, in Firefox yo

10. jQuery 3D ObjectVR

This jQuery libraray helps you create attractive and lovely 3D shapes. Change the perspective, tilt, rotate and play with the shapes using the jQuery 3D ObjectVR plugin.

11. jQuery 3D Levitation Effect

An awesome illustration of 3D Levitation effect sing jQuery. Create attractive 3D levitation using this as an inspiration. Tweak the plugin to create your own varities of levitation using jQuery.

12. jQuery Smart3D

jQuery smart 3D provides a set of interesting effects that can be used to design interactive websites. Use them on site headers to create appealing websites. It is very simple to use as several layers glued together into a 3D effect.

13. 3D Sphere Using jQuery

Ever wanted your tag cloud to resemble a ball? Of course you did. This tutorial will walk you through how to create a Sphere in jQuery.

14. jQuery SSCarousel

The jQuery SSCarousel is a lightweight plugin that can be used to show your sidebar items. Show off your text in a rotating manner with the jQuery SSCarousel.

15. jQuery Three Dee

Love those 3D movies? Then you will ove this too! The jQuery Three Dee project is a plugin that transforms plain text into eye-popping 3D text. You will need a pair of red/blue 3D glasses to view the 3D effect created. The plugin uses CSS3, with a fall-back for older browsers to create the 3D effect.

16. TextDepth: 3D-text jQuery Plugin

TextDepth,3D-Text jQuery Plugin allows to create awesome 3D text effect with jQuery. Enjoy 3D effect in all yiur text with this easy to use plugin.

17. jQuery 3D Label Effects

A jQuery plugin that applies highlight and shadow effects to text in a control so as to create a 3d effect.

18. 3d tag cloud

This is a jQuery plugin to create a 3d tag cloud from an unordered list. Create tags that rotate with a 3d effect usig jQuery.

19. jQuery TagCanvas

TagCanvas is a Javascript class which will draw and animate a HTML5 canvas based tag cloud. In general tag clouds use the font size of the tag links to highlight their frequency or popularity, so TagCanvas uses the size of the tag text to determine the weight of each tag.

20. Tagosphere jQuery 3D Tag Cloud

A 3d animated tag cloud generated from an array. You can easily customize it by tweaking the eide range of options provided by this plugin.

A 3d animated tag cloud generated from an array. You can easily customize it by tweaking the eide range of options provided by this plugin. You can see a small thumbnail when you hover over each tag in the tag cloud.

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TagCanvas is a Javascript class which will draw and animate a HTML5 canvas based tag cloud. In general tag clouds use the font size of the tag links to highlight their frequency or popularity, so TagCanvas uses the size of the tag text to determine the weight of each tag. This plugin provides a lot of options to customize the look and feel.

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This is a jQuery plugin to create a 3d tag cloud from an unordered list. Create tags that rotate with a 3d effect usig jQuery. This plugin provides a lot of options to customize the looks of the amazing jQuery 3d tag cloud.

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A jQuery plugin that applies highlight and shadow effects to text in a control so as to create a 3d effect.

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TextDepth,3D-Text jQuery Plugin allows to create awesome 3D text effect with jQuery. Enjoy 3D effect in all yiur text with this easy to use plugin.

It comes with the following options to customize the 3D Effect:

• Depth
• Wrapper
• Shade_Color
• Gradient

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Love those 3D movies? Then you will ove this too! The jQuery Three Dee project is a plugin that transforms plain text into eye-popping 3D text. You will need a pair of red/blue 3D glasses to view the 3D effect created. The plugin uses CSS3, with a fall-back for older browsers to create the 3D effect

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The jQuery SSCarousel is a lightweight plugin that can be used to show your sidebar items. Show off your text in a rotating manner with the jQuery SSCarousel. It is hover based. The text keeps otating in a subtle manner. But on hover, the text stays static, letting one read them out.

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Ever wanted your tag cloud to resemble a ball? Of course you did. This tutorial will walk you through how to create a Sphere in jQuery.

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jQuery smart 3D provides a set of interesting effects that can be used to design interactive websites. Use them on site headers to create appealing websites. It is very simple to use as several layers glued together into a 3D effect. This plugin provides a lot of opions to customize the behavior.

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