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Buddhabrot explorer is a web-based tool for visualizing the Buddhabrot fractal, a mathematical visualization related to the Mandelbrot set. Built as a progressive web app using Rust and WebAssembly, it delivers… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Buddhabrot explorer: A high-performance PWA using Rust and WebAssembly launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Capalyze▲809

    ChatGPT for datavores: scrape → ask → visualize

    2025 · capalyze.ai · its alternatives →

  2. 2AR

    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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    A discovery engine, a wikipedia page for anything

    2024 · explorer.globe.engineer · its alternatives →

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    Explore interactive fractals, mathematical patterns, and shareable visualizations across classic sets, L-systems, and 3D recursive forms.

    2022 · fractal.garden · its alternatives →

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    Explore the infinite complexity of the Mandelbrot Set with this online fractal viewer. Zoom in and generate high resolution images.

    2024 · mandelbrot.site · its alternatives →

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    I've always been dissatisfied that simple Mandelbrot explorers proport themselves as a Fractal Graphing Calculator. In summer break between semesters, I started making a real graphing calculator, parsing LaTeX to WebGL to let you graph most any combination of z and c. Fun ones to try include - sin(z^2+c) - c^z - z^{1.7}+c Also supports animation, just enter any other letter and turn it into a variable. Supports Mandelbrot or Julia Set style calculation. Use with a graphics card or integrated graphics

    2025 · juliascope.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey there HN! We’re Antonio, Luca, and Yuhang, and we’re excited to introduce Fast GraphRAG, an open-source RAG approach that leverages knowledge graphs and the 25 years old PageRank for better information retrieval and reasoning. Building a good RAG pipeline these days takes a lot of manual optimizations. Most engineers intuitively start from naive RAG: throw everything in a vector database and hope that semantic search is powerful enough. This can work for use cases where accuracy isn’t too important and hallucinations are tolerable, but it doesn’t work for more difficult queries that…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data - saulpw/visidata

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Silk 2.0▲135

    Publish data online and create interactive visualizations

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    The latest 3Blue1Brown video [1] about the M. C. Escher print gallery effect inspired me to re-implement the effect as WebGL fragment shader on my own. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY

    Apr 2026 · static.laszlokorte.de · its alternatives →

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    Vizdium▲131

    The quick and easy free data visualization tool

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Empowering designers with visual predictive analytics

    2015 · feng-gui.com · its alternatives →

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    A JavaScript fractal explorer,

    2016 · valera-rozuvan.github.io · its alternatives →

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    For the last year I’ve been developing Hyperparam — a collection of small, fast, dependency-free open-source libraries designed for data scientists and ML engineers to actually look at their data. - Hyparquet: Read any Parquet file in browser/node.js - Icebird: Explore Iceberg tables without needing Spark/Presto - HighTable: Virtual scrolling of millions of rows - Hyparquet-Writer: Export Parquet easily from JS - Hyllama: Read llama.cpp .gguf LLM metadata efficiently CLI for viewing local files: npx hyperparam dataset.parquet Example dataset on Hugging Face Space:…

    2025 · hyperparam.app · its alternatives →

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    Im finally ready to share a fun side project that I've been working on. For 20 years, Ive been fascinated with Mandelbrot fractals. Back in the day, I made a MacOS9 app that rendered them, and I missed it. So, I decided to bring it up to the modern age and build a website to explore this and other similar fractals. In the process, I discovered some other types of generative art that looked fun, so I made those too. One is a spirograph, another is similar to an old AfterDark screensaver called Satori (anyone remember that?). Others draw paint splatters and random squiggly lines. The user is…

    2022 · zazow.com · its alternatives →

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    Frax▲77

    Create and share high-definition fractal art (iOS)

    2014 · fract.al · its alternatives →

  21. 21MW

    This was more of a sandbox to play with Raphael and Flot than anything else but I think there are some interesting statistics in there. It'd be awesome to do this over time but I really don't have the spare time required.

    2011 · burntbrunch.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chrome extension that transforms websites into geometric art

    2015 · abstractbrowsing.net · its alternatives →

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    Generative Density Approximation for Deterministic Chaos The Hopalong Attractor - ratwolfzero/hopalong_python

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24ME

    2015 · acfaruk.com · its alternatives →

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