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24 alternatives to Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer

This project is a modernized reimplementation of the original Speck molecule renderer created by Rye Terrell. - vangelov/modern-speck

This is a modern reimplementation of the Speck molecule renderer, available on GitHub. It is designed for anyone interested in visualizing molecular structures. The software updates the classic Speck tool with… 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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    Browser-based WebGL molecule renderer with the goal of producing figures that are as attractive as they are practical. - wwwtyro/speck

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Browser-based WebGL molecule renderer with the goal of producing figures that are as attractive as they are practical. - wwwtyro/speck

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Future of Molecular Design - From drug discovery to chemistry class, Nanome is a powerful tool for research and education. Visualize, build, and simulate chemical compounds, proteins, and nucleic acids like never before. Collaborate remotely in real-time.

    2018 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →

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    🧜‍♀️ RESTful rendering pipeline for generating sequence and UML diagrams using Mermaid for Markdown docs (Diagrams as a Service) - Schachte/Mermrender

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    Pts is a javascript library for visualization and creative-coding.

    2018 · ptsjs.org · its alternatives →

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    Render▲318

    Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…

    2019 · render.com · its alternatives →

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    Gleek▲309

    Free online diagramming tool for developers

    2021 · gleek.io · its alternatives →

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    Scientific visualization meets mathematical animation

    Dec 2025 · manimvtk.mathify.dev · its alternatives →

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    Web-based 3D molecule editor and visualizer with molecular mechanics calculators. - fatimasajadi/chemozart

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    grafar is a JavaScript library for creating visualizations on the web, with 3D support via WebGL. Built for mathematical plotting, but also can also handle data visualization.

    2021 · thoughtspile.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Molecule is a Go library for parsing protobufs in an efficient and zero-allocation manner. - GitHub - richardartoul/molecule: Molecule is a Go library for parsing protobufs in an efficient and zero-allocation manner.

    2020 · github.com · 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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    TLDR: Click the link to see some cool visualizations, refresh a few times for random examples, and try editing some of the code yourself. This is a small weekend project of mine inspired by shadertoy.com It's a static single-page site hosted on GitHub pages so the website design is pretty barebones. I'm not a web developer so I mainly wanted to create a Cool Thing with my free time and not have to learn tons of front-end to do it. I'd love to hear what people think about it and please post or send me any shaders you make! You can use the link button in the bottom right to share. I hope that…

    2022 · textshader.com · its alternatives →

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    In the past I've used declarative diagram generation tools like Mermaid.js a lot for quickly drawing up things but for presentations or deliverables I find that I have to then move the generated diagrams over to a tool like Lucidchart which allows full control of the organization and customization. Therefore I am now working on this to combine the benefits of both into just one tool which can do both functions. The project is certainly in the early stages but if you find yourself making architecture diagrams I'd love to hear your thoughts on the idea or even a Github issue for a feature…

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I just published an open-source protein and ligand viewer. Goal: fast and easy-to-use. Long-term: It's a platform for docking and molecular dynamics. The basic functionality for viewing and inspecting work. I'm currently working on Coot-like electron-density viewing. I'm gradually splitting it into standalone libs, published to crates.io. Some are up already, others are integrated, and will be split off when sufficiently mature and decoupled. Uses parallel execution when able, through thread pools (Rayon), CPU SIMD and Cuda. The default control scheme is non-standard, unless you play video…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Here's a project I've been working on for a little while now. Ripl is a JS library that provides a unified API for rendering shapes on both canvas and SVG interchangeably. Over the years I've used D3 extensively to create data visualisations so I figured I'd have a go at making my own version with a slightly more modern API and stricter TypeScript support. I am aware there are already libraries that can draw to multiple contexts interchangeably, but I've added a few little niceties to Ripl that (as far as I know) some other libraries don't have such as CSS-like query selectors, DOM-like…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    When building a 3D scene using libraries such as Three.js we generally use meshes. You define a geometry attach some material to it to…

    2023 · varun.ca · its alternatives →

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    chem3D▲98

    Explore 90 million compounds in 3D and augmented reality

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    CPU rendered ASCII art shader writing tool with hot reloading. - danthedaniel/js-shaders

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Interactive 3D molecule viewer in HTML5. Works with PDB/MOL/SDF formats.

    2010 · alteredqualia.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.

    2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →

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    So, after years of abandoning Rust after the hello world stage, I finally decided to do something substantial. It started with simple line rendering, but I liked how it was progressing so I figured I could make a reasonably complete PSX style renderer and a game with it. My only dependency is SDL2; I treat it as my "platform", so it handles windowing, input and audio. This means my Cargo.toml is as simple as: [dependencies.sdl2] version = "0.35" default-features = false features = ["mixer"] this pulls around 6-7 other dependencies. I am doing actual true color 3D rendering (with Z buffer,…

    2025 · totenarctanz.itch.io · its alternatives →

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