Helical Time
Visualizing time as a continuous 3D torus
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HN · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive 3d web simulations · 157 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a frontend 3D data visualization built using Three.js or WebGL mapping time coordinates to toroidal geometry, easily promptable with an AI coding assistant.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Integrate daily loops into annual loop
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1872 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1611 of 1873 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Temporal Context Map · hn · 2026-07-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- atlas-of-physics · github · 2026-10-28 · 311 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- poincar3 · github · 2026-09-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Cellula Humana · hn · 2026-10-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- LEDGER · github · 2026-10-07 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Segment Tree visualization · hn · 2026-05-21 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- prism-viz · github · 2026-10-08 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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