Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Liquid Canvas Portfolio
Interactive liquid simulation & custom GLSL shader art
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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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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Liquid Metal▲316Paper is a new design tool. We launched into open alpha today. Anyone can now sign up and use Paper. We started Paper about 1 year ago with the goal to bring more creativity back into design tools. It feels like the existing options are becoming increasingly corporate. To celebrate to launch, we published a new shader that lets anyone see their logo in Apple's new heat map animation style. There is no sign-up needed at heat.paper.design. We're always looking for feedback from anyone who uses Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, or Illustrator, about what they most need in their professional design…
2025 · app.paper.design · its alternatives →
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Trickle - Magic Canvas ▲1,064Hey HN! Introducing Trickle Magic Canvas: the world’s first Agentic Canvas, where you can visually co-create apps and websites with AI, from idea to production. Why is a canvas better? Most AI tools today rely on linear chats or text prompts. We believe that limits creativity and clarity. Canvas changes the game. 1. Every version & page at a glance. Each page and sub-page lives on a timeline. You can quickly browse, edit, and preview progress like a living, visual document — no more digging through chat logs or scattered states. 2. The canvas is the context. Unlike linear chats, you can…
2025 · trickle.so · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We're Ben and Izak, founders of Repaint (YC S23). Repaint is like Figma, but for creating real websites. It has panning, zooming, and dragging elements around. The settings closely follow html/css. We think an open canvas is a big improvement over other website builders. Everything is easier: styling, consistency, responsiveness… But making it work was hard! We thought HN would appreciate the tech behind it: - A custom WebGL rendering engine (w/text, shadows, blurs, gradients, & opacity groups) - A partial implementation of the css spec - A custom text editor & text shaper…
2024 · repaint.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · haxiomic.github.io · its alternatives →
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Create, stack, and animate shader effects on images, video, text, and 3D models — free, in your browser, powered by WebGPU. Export video, publish to the community gallery, and remix any published scene.
Apr 2026 · eng.basement.studio · its alternatives →
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Fluid simulation in liquidfun-wasm
2021 · birchlabs.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Browse and share GPU-made GIFs. Explore GLSL shader experiments, search by topic, and open any piece in the editor to learn or remix.
2018 · shadergif.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · antimatter15.com · 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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Liquid Math▲78Create generative art with biological simulations
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Fluido▲138Turn any Figma shape into liquid metal in one click
Jun 2026 · figma.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · observablehq.com · its alternatives →
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Water-Simulation with real time specular reflection on the waters surface. The reflection is implemented in GLSL and runs on the GPU and in screen space. The water itself is implemented using a pressure based approach for the surface calculation. - MauriceGit/Water_Simulation
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Transform Static Images Into Dynamic Particle Experiences
Aug 2026 · particle-studios.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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2020 · exophysics.net · its alternatives →
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A prototype implementation of cloth simulation. It uses the soft body dynamics support in ammo.js.
2020 · playcanv.as · its alternatives →
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(space = reset) Fluid mechanics is an extremely interesting topic and I have been creative coding for a couple of months now. Therefore I started working on flow fields in processing. It had so much fun playing around with the different parameters in this project, I decided to rewrite in p5.js an added a control panel. You can change most of the parameters (within some constraints I thought to be reasonable), randomize the values and export and import settings. Hopefully some coders here get inspired and also join the great creative coding community.
2024 · synapse.nugatio.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · usefluid.com · its alternatives →
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