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24 alternatives to Speck, a WebGL molecule renderer for attractive and practical figures
Browser-based WebGL molecule renderer with the goal of producing figures that are as attractive as they are practical. - wwwtyro/speck
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Speck, a WebGL molecule renderer for attractive and practical figures launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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This project is a modernized reimplementation of the original Speck molecule renderer created by Rye Terrell. - vangelov/modern-speck
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Spector.js▲10Explore and troubleshoot your WebGL scenes easily
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · antimatter15.com · its alternatives →
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Render▲318Hey 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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2021 · static.laszlokorte.de · its alternatives →
- 7TCtextshader.com▲260
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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Voxel-engine in Javascript. Contribute to Lallassu/voxelengine3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Agentic data platform for robotics. Collect, triage and debug fleet data, search every run, and curate datasets to train your next model. Free to start.
2021 · foxglove.dev · 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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CPU rendered ASCII art shader writing tool with hot reloading. - danthedaniel/js-shaders
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · pbr-book.org · 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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A simple and fast zero-dependencies-library to transform text-selections into serializable markings.
2015 · bowlingx.github.io · its alternatives →
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2024 · shadeup.dev · 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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Fast by default, flexible 2D plotting library. Contribute to wwwtyro/candygraph development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 18CM
Interactive 3D molecule viewer in HTML5. Works with PDB/MOL/SDF formats.
2010 · alteredqualia.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · k9.github.io · its alternatives →
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Brusher▲158Tiny library to add interactive backgrounds to webpages
2018 · kamran.fyi · its alternatives →
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A multi-threaded, GPU-powered, 2D vector graphics environment for Node.js - samizdatco/skia-canvas
2020 · 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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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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