Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to BOND
Making the fourth dimension visible
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I was wondering how I can arrange objects along a spherical helix path, and read some articles on it. I ended up learning about parametric equations again, and make this visualization to document what I learned: https://visualrambling.space/moving-objects-in-3d/ feel free to visit and let me know what you think!
2025 · visualrambling.space · its alternatives →
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Google Translate for engineers working with motion
2017 · google.github.io · its alternatives →
- 3IR
2023 · sagittarius.greg.technology · its alternatives →
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2021 · victorribeiro.com · its alternatives →
- 5IE
2017 · mjmdavis.com · its alternatives →
- 6OI
Things orbital and not.
2016 · orbides.org · its alternatives →
- 7
Ever since I remember I had a lot of curiosity regarding hyper dimensional spaces. Picturing higher dimensions, such an impossible yet exciting idea... So years ago I came across a small GIF of a tesseract. Since then it left me wondering how cubes from even higher dimensions would look like... Years passed and I became a software developer, decided to tackle the problem myself and ncube was the result. ncube allows you to visualize rotating hypercubes of arbitrary dimensions. It works by rotating the hyperdimensional vertices and applying a chain of perspective projections to them until the…
2023 · ncube.ndavd.com · its alternatives →
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We ported pbrt-v4 to Julia and built it into a Makie backend. Any Makie plot can now be rendered with physically-based path tracing. Julia compiles user-defined physics directly into GPU kernels, so anyone can extend the ray tracer with new materials and media - a black hole with gravitational lensing is ~200 lines of Julia. Runs on AMD, NVIDIA, and CPU via KernelAbstractions.jl, with Metal coming soon. Demo scenes: github.com/SimonDanisch/RayDemo
Feb 2026 · makie.org · its alternatives →
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Deepen 4d▲70LiDAR Point level instance and semantic segmentation
2019 · deepen.ai · its alternatives →
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X Inertial-aided Visual Odometry. Contribute to ucla-vision/xivo development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a little hobby project that I hope you enjoy. You can see where the International Space Station is now, with live HD video from NASA, on a realistic 3D globe. The positions of the sun and moon are also accurate, though distances aren't to scale. The clouds are also near-realtime; I span that out into a separate project at https://clouds.matteason.co.uk, where the cloud images I create from EUMETSAT data are freely available. I've got more features almost ready to go, like the ability to turn off all UI, toggleable clouds and turning off the day/night cycle I'd love for…
2024 · iss.matteason.co.uk · its alternatives →
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PixelSpace▲68A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system
2014 · joshworth.com · its alternatives →
- 13AR
Hi HN, I've always been interested in fractals, especially the Mandelbrot and Julia sets. A few years ago I created a 2d viewer of this inherently 4d space. But the other day I decided to ask Claude and GPT how to make this a full RT 3d explorer. A few hours later and this was vibe coded. To use it you can use the mouse to rotate the fractal the the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. to map from 4d to 3d, one of the dims is mapped to an adjustable slider. the there is also a clipping plane slider to help visualize the internal structures of the fractal. I have mixed feelings about vibe coding.…
Dec 2025 · bryanjj.github.io · its alternatives →
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My coworker Drew (http://traipse.com/) wrote a beautiful iPad app to teach about the fourth dimension (coordinate spaces and such.) http://fourthdimensionapp.com/
2012 · traipse.com · its alternatives →
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Renders black hole gravitational lensing effects in an image canvas using WebGL, glfx.js, and numeric.js - cliffcrosland/black-hole.js
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made a GLSL shader that bends 3D space using a 4D hypersphere projection. The idea: 1. Project a model onto a 4D sphere 2. Rotate the sphere 3. Project the model back to 3D Code and details: https://github.com/bntre/CurvedSpaceShader Curious what you think.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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UpToWhere▲28The idea came to me after spotting the sea peeking through mountains on a drive near Barcelona. It left me wondering what else was visible from different locations. Some of the features I later added include 3D maps, sun path calculation, adjustable elevation (calculate from a drone/plane POV), and mountain detection. To celebrate the launch, the first 100 HN users can get 1 month of free premium access with the code: UTWfirst100. I’d love your feedback, questions, and suggestions. What would you use this for? What features would you like to see?
2025 · uptowhere.com · its alternatives →
- 18RV
While studying Geometric Algebra I have built some interactive visualization to demonstrate how geometric transformations (rotation, scaling, translation) can be constructed by just composing reflections. Accepting reflection as the most elementary geometric operation was an eye opening moment for me. I think some of you might enjoy the interactive visuals.
Aug 2026 · static.laszlokorte.de · its alternatives →
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Terrapattern▲77A visual search tool for satellite imagery
2016 · terrapattern.com · its alternatives →
- 20TM
An interactive playground to explore the extreme distortions of the Mercator projection. Set any point on Earth as the new North Pole. Warp the map in real-time. See the world in a whole new way.
2014 · mrgris.com · its alternatives →
- 21IB
Mar 2026 · structuredlabs.github.io · its alternatives →
- 22VM
Topological visualizations for the masses
2020 · topovis.iambeef.com · its alternatives →
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An interactive data visualisation about Exoplanets by TK Vishal
2019 · exoplanetexplore.now.sh · its alternatives →
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More ships buried under the streets of SF & Moving Sand
2016 · its alternatives →
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