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Project · 2026

Sajda

Learn the prayer one position at a time, in 3D

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Sajda screenshot

A faceless 3D figure on a prayer mat walks through each position of the salah, with what to say, the common mistakes and the differences between the four Sunni schools, each one cited. Prayer times are computed on the phone and shown next to your mosque's own times. No account, no tracking, and it works offline.

What's interesting about it

  • The figure is built in code, not a downloaded model: a bone rig, a library of poses, and a contact solver that puts forehead, nose, palms, knees and toes on the floor in sujud.
  • Modest by construction: one continuous robe hangs from the shoulders and only grows to enclose the legs, so no body shape shows in any pose. Hands press the cloth in instead of sinking into it.
  • Every school difference and correction cites a hadith (collection and number) or a standard school text; what couldn't be verified is listed, not taught.
  • Prayer times on the device with adhan, a mosque-time column (in Senegal, Dhuhr is prayed around 14:00) and a share image sized for WhatsApp.
  • Wudu in 3D, sujud as-sahw, a kids mode with stars and a 'what comes next?' mosque quiz; every pose also exists as a pre-rendered still.