Helical Time
Visualizing time as a continuous 3D torus
Details
- External ID
- 49699783
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Helical Time
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12998405103668262
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- 3d torus visualization for time
- Manually corrected
- False
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
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Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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