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Exploring Indra's Pearls with WebGPU is an interactive visualization tool that renders mathematical fractals and geometric patterns based on Indra's Pearls concepts directly in web browsers. It leverages WebGPU… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Exploring Indra's Pearls with WebGPU launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Capalyze▲809

   ChatGPT for datavores: scrape → ask → visualize

   2025 · capalyze.ai · its alternatives →

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   Fractal Garden – An Exhibition of Mathematical Beauty▲168

   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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   M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown▲176

   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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   A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify▲616

   Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…

   2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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   ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)▲670

   Creator here. I built ChartGPU because I kept hitting the same wall: charting libraries that claim to be "fast" but choke past 100K data points. The core insight: Canvas2D is fundamentally CPU-bound. Even WebGL chart libraries still do most computation on the CPU. So I moved everything to the GPU via WebGPU: - LTTB downsampling runs as a compute shader - Hit-testing for tooltips/hover is GPU-accelerated - Rendering uses instanced draws (one draw call per series) The result: 1M points at 60fps with smooth zoom/pan. Live demo:…

   Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   WebGPU + TypeScript Slime Mold▲71

   🦠 Slime mold simulation with WebGPU and TypeScript. - SuboptimalEng/slime-sim-webgpu

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Ipyvolume: 3D plotting library for the Jupyter/IPython notebook▲210

   3d plotting for Python in the Jupyter notebook based on IPython widgets using WebGL - widgetti/ipyvolume

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A real-time 4D fractal explorer in the browser using WebGPU▲26

   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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   Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting in WebGL▲309

   2023 · antimatter15.com · its alternatives →

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    Free e-book about WebGPU Programming▲471

    I am excited to announce the launch of my e-book on Graphics/WebGPU programming! This project has consumed much of my spare time, during which I developed various tools to facilitate the publishing process, including a code playground and a static site generator that can reference sample codes. However, I'm feeling burnt out and ready to call it finished, even though it may not feel completely done. Avoiding another abandoned side project has been my primary motivation in reaching this point.

    2024 · shi-yan.github.io · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT Interactive Learning ▲143

    Learn math and science with interactive visual explanations

    Mar 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU▲131

    This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API that renders glTF scenes. It supports many materials, textures, material & normal mapping, and heavily relies on multiple importance sampling to speed up convergence.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL▲276

    2021 · htwins.net · its alternatives →

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    Synthesize TikZ Graphics Programs for Scientific Figures and Sketches▲132

    Creating high-quality scientific figures can be time-consuming and challenging, even though sketching ideas on paper is relatively easy. Furthermore, recreating existing figures that are not stored in formats preserving semantic information is equally complex. To tackle this problem, we introduce DeTikZify, a novel multimodal language model that automatically synthesizes scientific figures as semantics-preserving TikZ graphics programs based on sketches and existing figures. We also introduce a Monte Carlo Tree Search-based inference algorithm that enables DeTikZify to iteratively refine its…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GeoKone▲77

    A web application for drawing awesome geometric shapes

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Polyhedra Viewer▲123

    An interactive polyhedra viewer and manipulator

    2018 · polyhedra.tessera.li · its alternatives →

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    CUDA Fractal Renderer▲44

    Quickly render fractals in CUDA. Contribute to tripplyons/cuda-fractal-renderer development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    WebGPU Puzzles - Learn GPU Programming in Your Browser▲14

    2024 · answer.ai · its alternatives →

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    WebGPU Tech Demo▲141

    WebGPU tech demo running in modern browsers showcasing various rendering techniques like deferred rendering with 400+ dynamic lights, Hi-Z screen space reflections and cascaded shadow mapping.

    2024 · gnikoloff.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Silk 2.0▲135

    Publish data online and create interactive visualizations

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    A simple infinite world in WebGL▲181

    2016 · erkaman.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Fractal.parts – View and design fractals▲58

    2019 · fractal.parts · its alternatives →

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    CandyGraph, a flexible, fast-by-default WebGL plotting library▲94

    Fast by default, flexible 2D plotting library. Contribute to wwwtyro/candygraph development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal▲101

    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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