3d transforms on SVG element

Question

Is it possible to achieve perspective with 3d transforms on a SVG elements?

I'm talking about something similar with how the Star Wars opening titles look like with 3d perspective. This is a jsfiddle with the desired effect achieved using CSS3 3d transforms:

<section style="transform: perspective(200px) rotateX(-30deg); transform-origin: 50% 100%; text-align: justify; width: 100px;">
  <p style="backface-visibility: hidden;">TEXTTEXTTEXT</p>
</section>

Answer 1

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Update Nov 2018:

Testing the snipet from the question in latest chrome and Firefox works. Although support for 3d transforms on svg elements isn't very wide, browsers are implementing it more and more.

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Origin answer :

3D transforms aren't supported on SVG elements. There are a few workarounds though :

If the svg doesn't contain elements that shouldn't be transformed, you can use CSS 3d transforms on the SVG element itself :

svg {
  width: 70%;
  margin: 0 auto;
  display: block;
  -webkit-transform: perspective(300px) rotateX(30deg);
  transform: perspective(300px) rotateX(30deg);
}

<svg viewbox="0 0 100 20">
  <text x="0" y="20">TEXTEXTEX</text>
</svg>

In case of polygons, you make a 2D polygon look like a 3D polygon. In the following example, the red rectangle is 3D rotated (rotateX(40deg)) and the black rectangle is a 2D SVG polygon made to look like a 3D rotated rectangle:

div{
  display:inline-block;
  width:200px; height:100px;
  background:red;
  transform:perspective(500px) rotateX(40deg);
}
svg{
  display:inline-block;
  width:220px; height:auto;
}
div, svg{
  display:inline-block;
  margin:0 10px;
}

<div></div>
<svg viewbox="0 0.5 10 4">
  <polygon points="9.9 4.1 0.1 4.1 0.7 0.6 9.3 0.6" fill=""/>
</svg>

Answer 2

3D transforms are supported inside <svg> elements (f.e. on <circle>) (at least to some extent, it seems like perspective is isometric only).

For example, here's animation of transform: rotate3d applied to <circle> elements (tested in Chrome only):

body, html {
  background: black;
  width: 100%;  height: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

body {
  display: flex;
}

svg {
  width: 100%;
}

.gAExgp {
  transform-origin: 50% 50% 0px;
  animation-name: phEs, ipaUyp;
  animation-duration: 4s, 7s;
  animation-timing-function: linear;
  animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

.PwswZ {
  transform-origin: 50% 50% 0px;
  animation-name: gcRPJT, ipaUyp;
  animation-duration: 4s, 8s;
  animation-timing-function: linear;
  animation-iteration-count: infinite;
}

@keyframes phEs {
  50% {
    transform: rotate3d(0, 2, 1, 180deg);
  }
  100% {
    transform: rotate3d(0, 2, 1, 360deg);
  }
}

@keyframes gcRPJT {
  50% {
    transform: rotate3d(2, 0, 1, 180deg);
  }
  100% {
    transform: rotate3d(2, 0, 1, 360deg);
  }
}

@keyframes ipaUyp {
  0% {
    stroke: magenta;
  }
  33% {
    stroke: cyan;
  }
  66% {
    stroke: yellow;
  }
  100% {
    stroke: magenta;
  }
}

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