ocean-simulation
An interactive real-time ocean simulation combining FFT/JONSWAP waves, depth-aware coastal behavior, foam, caustics, refraction and dynamic weather around a tropical island.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 31 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive 3d web simulations · 157 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Implementing a basic Three.js water plane is trivial, but real-time FFT/JONSWAP wave synthesis with depth-aware breaking, caustics, and foam requires advanced compute shader and fluid mathematics expertise.
What it would actually take: This simulation relies on WebGPU/WebGL2 compute shaders running inverse fast Fourier transforms (IFFT) based on Phillips/JONSWAP spectrum algorithms, coupled with cascading grid LODs (Clipmaps). The challenging aspects are real-time simulation of shallow-water wave shoaling/refraction against terrain heightmaps, underwater caustic ray marching, and dynamic foam advection shaders, requiring specialized graphics programming and physics simulation skills.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 560 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #146 of 561 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- coastal-simulation · github · 2026-09-19 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Ultra-Water · github · 2026-10-28 · 523 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- NeuralSpecOcean · github · 2026-11-06 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- open-water · github · 2026-10-20 · 113 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Solaris the Thinking Ocean Simulator · hn · 2026-06-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- ClearWater6.1 · github · 2026-09-29 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- HeatSpectra: Realtime 3D Surface Heat Simulation · hn · 2026-05-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- PhysStudio · github · 2026-10-30 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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