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24 alternatives to Higher-dimensional lattices unfolded into the 2D plane

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Number Garden is an interactive browser-based pattern system that visualizes higher-dimensional lattices unfolded into two dimensions. Built from combined permutations, it generates visual experiments that users can… 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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    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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    This is the first iteration of a short game I’m making that tries to interactively explain some of my favorite math questions / ideas. My goal is mostly to get the player curious and not necessarily to explain absolutely everything. There were a lot of fun technical parts to building this: - For implementation reasons, it’s much easier if the lines all have integer intersection points with each other. To do this, when a new line is added I “cheat” by rounding intersections to integers and then splitting the old lines at the intersection into new linds (with potentially different slopes)…

    2024 · rahulilango.com · its alternatives →

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    Bitmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics - mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I went down the rabbit hole on a side project and ended up building this: Strange Attractors(https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors). It’s built with three.js. Working on it reminded me of the little "maths for fun" exercises I used to do while learning programming in early days. Just trying things out, getting fascinated and geeky, and being surprised by the results. I spent way too much time on this, but it was extreme fun. My favorite part: someone pointed me to the Simone Attractor on Threads. It is a 2D attractor and I asked GPT to extrapolate it to…

    Oct 2025 · blog.shashanktomar.com · its alternatives →

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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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    2023 · plant.max-richter.dev · its alternatives →

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    Generate beautiful patterns based on the symmetry of six

    2022 · more.graphics · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! I'm the author of this project. I wrote it because I think that the math that makes characters move in games and movies is incredibly beautiful, and I wanted to give others a glimpse into it. It's crazy to think that quaternions, an abstract mathematical tool discovered by William Rowan Hamilton in 1843, would be so perfectly suited to solve hard problems in the world of 3D character animation more than a hundred years later. The story of how he discovered quaternions is also beautiful. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia: "Hamilton was looking for ways of extending complex numbers…

    2022 · diegomacario.github.io · its alternatives →

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    This seems unlikely to be a "new" idea, but I stumbled into it by accident and thought it was cool. Java source code below: &#x2F;&#x2F; This class is in the public domain. public class Numbers { public static void main(String[] args) { int numRows = 256; int numColumns = 128; for (int row = 0; row < numRows; row++) { StringBuilder rowOutput = new StringBuilder(); for (int column = 0; column < numColumns; column++) { if ((row & column) != 0) rowOutput.append("1"); else rowOutput.append("0"); } System.out.println( String.format("row&#x2F;col %s:\t%s", row, rowOutput.toString())); } } }

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Experiments in expressing statistical thinking with interactive design

    2015 · r2d3.us · its alternatives →

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    There is a large grid of 250x250 tiles, on which you are be able to create a tiny website, contained into the tile. You can basically consider the tile as a mini version of your website, showcasing what your full site has (but it can be anything). You are able to link to your full site, and use any HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS inside. The purpose is to create beautiful and interesting tiles, that could be used for exploring the indie-web in an easy and interesting way.

    Jan 2026 · webtiles.kicya.net · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're happy to release Mycelium, a JavaScript library for creating graph visualizations of machine learning models or any other directed acyclic graphs. Mycelium powers the graph viewer of the Talaria [0] a research model visualization and optimization system, which was used to optimize the efficiency of Apple Foundation Models [1]. Everything works entirely on the client-side in the browser — we provide a rudimentary ONNX loader out of the box, which you can try by dragging model files into our website. It is also simple to define loaders for your own model formats. The library was…

    2025 · apple.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Explore tilings on the hyperbolic plane. Contribute to timhutton/hyperplay development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey there! I'm the brains behind the math crossword game on my site. This game is all about making math a little more fun – users just drag and drop numbers to fill in the blanks and move on to the next level if they get it right. Let me know if face any issues or have any suggestions! :)

    2024 · scientific.place · its alternatives →

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    A completely visual way to build CSS grid–powered layouts

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    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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    Math is about more than just numbers. In this

    2018 · coloring-book.co · its alternatives →

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    I was fascinated reading through another recent HN submission about a highly efficient implementation of A* in Lisp, which got me thinking about how I could do something similar in Python. However, these kinds of pathfinding algorithms really need complex terrain&#x2F;mazes with interesting obstructions to showcase what they can do and how they work. So, I started thinking about how I could generate cool and diverse random "mazes" (they aren't really mazes, but I'm not sure what the best term is). I got a bit carried away thinking of lots of different cool ways to generate these mazes, such…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Maze generation visualization. Contribute to pakastin/maze development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I made this simple notepad for writing down whatever comes to mind. The goal is to force you to not get hung up on what you’ve already written. There’s no formatting, you can’t edit what you’ve typed, you can’t select text or move your caret around. There’s no backspace, delete, undo&#x2F;redo, or paste. You can’t even see any words except the one you’re currently typing, and when you’re done with it, it fades away. The text is all still there, just invisible. You can save everything you’ve written as a .txt if you want, or just empty your thoughts and let them disappear forever.…

    2025 · enda.sh · its alternatives →

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    Create, share, and view MathBox^2 scenes using JSX

    2016 · blakelapierre.github.io · its alternatives →

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