hktex
Heat Kernel Textures: the Geodesic Gaussians That Do Not Splat
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GITHUB · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 97 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views
Niche: graphics rendering engines and libraries · 149 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No HKTex is an advanced computer graphics and differential geometry research codebase implementing heat kernel textures and geodesic Gaussian methods on 3D meshes.
What it would actually take: Requires implementing discrete Laplace-Beltrami operators, heat method geodesic distance solvers, and custom CUDA/C++ shaders for geodesic surface filtering on non-Euclidean manifolds. A real implementation depends on graduate-level knowledge of differential geometry, numerical PDE solvers, and GPU surface rendering pipelines.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1733 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #159 of 1734 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- vksr · github · 2026-09-19 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- gaussian-splat-to-blender-nodes · github · 2026-10-24 · 65 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Radix · hn · 2026-10-29 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- HeatSpectra: Realtime 3D Surface Heat Simulation · hn · 2026-05-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- SVO Voxelization for Gaussian Splat Collisions · hn · 2026-02-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- SplatAnything · github · 2026-11-08 · 205 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- gaussian-light-transport · github · 2026-09-11 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- SUPRA-Tex · github · 2026-10-14 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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