Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Solaris the Thinking Ocean Simulator
Solaris - a real-time WebGL simulation of Lem
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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Odyssey 3▲159A world model that simulates physics in real time
14d ago · odyssey.systems · its alternatives →
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PixelSpace▲68A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system
2014 · joshworth.com · its alternatives →
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🌊 Julia software for fast, friendly, flexible, ocean-flavored fluid dynamics on CPUs and GPUs - CliMA/Oceananigans.jl
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 5BA
rts-blog : A blog about creating an RTS in WebGL
2017 · emnh.github.io · its alternatives →
- 6WP
This was my recent weekend project, aimed at teaching me JavaScript, a bit of HTML5, and (mostly) WebGL. The orbital data are from NASA JPL. I was inspired in part by this Flash app: http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/orrery_2011_bce.swf, but wanted to do something in 3D. Coming from the games-dev world, this is my first introduction to web coding. The UI is jquery. I mostly used http://learningwebgl.com/blog for the 3D stuff. Being WebGL, it will work mostly on Chrome, Firefox 4 Beta. Forget about IE. I needed to figure out how to render text to the WebGL canvas - I…
2011 · solar-system-explorer.com · 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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The versatile ocean simulator, in pure Python, powered by JAX. - team-ocean/veros
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 9WL
2016 · whitestormjs.xyz · its alternatives →
- 10RG
2020 · bluemarble.nitk.in · its alternatives →
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I didn't realize Universe Sandbox ran on MacOS, and I was in the mood to play around a bit. Some functions it's got: - Random system generation - Sonification is super fun too - Habitability Simulation (Just for fun, don't cite this please) - Replacing, spawning, deleting objects I've had tons of fun building this, so I hope someone else can share the joy. It's free and runs in the browser. I'd love to hear any feedback. I think this is at a state where I might leave it as it is, but if people are interested in other features, maybe I'll keep working on it. I've kept saying I'll stop working…
Dec 2025 · luna.watermelonson.com · its alternatives →
- 12EC
Jul 2026 · earth-clock.onemonkey.org · its alternatives →
- 13TS
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2015 · space-rock.meteor.com · its alternatives →
- 15GA
2022 · gallpeters.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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A platform for building games of ‘unprecedented size’
2017 · its alternatives →
- 17VC
- 18VR
2014 · seanmcbeth.com · its alternatives →
- 19AO
2018 · comanche3d.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Like many of you, I'm tired of public AI leaderboards that mostly recycle the same saturated/overfitted benchmarks (MMLU, HumanEval, etc.) and often miss fast/cheap variants or real daily pain points. A couple days ago I launched AIBenchy — a small, opinionated leaderboard running my own custom tests focused on end-user/dev scenarios that actually trip up models today. Current tests cover categories like: - Anti-AI Tricks (classic gotchas like "count the Rs in strawberry", logic traps) - Instruction following & consistency - Data parsing/extraction -…
Jun 2026 · aibenchy.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · satu0king.github.io · its alternatives →
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WebGL simulation of the solar system. Contribute to olane/orbits.js development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · musiubar.com · its alternatives →
- 24AP
2016 · raytracer.crypt.sg · its alternatives →
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