coastal-simulation
A real-time coastal simulation in Three.js, pairing a shallow-water solver with breaking swells, whitewater, wet sand, spray and shoreline exploration
Details
- External ID
- 1377492826
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- coastal-simulation
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 45
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8022674865488086
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- 3D graphics and physics simulation tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- real-time three.js coastal and wave simulation
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Simulating shallow-water fluid equations alongside dynamic wave breaking, whitewater advection, and shoreline wetness in real time requires advanced mathematical physics and graphics shader engineering.
What it would actually take: Building this requires a WebGL/WebGPU pipeline implementing a 2D shallow-water equation (SWE) numerical solver running in compute or fragment shaders. The core challenge is coupling heightfield wave propagation with non-linear breaking swell criteria, particle-based foam advection, and multi-pass dynamic wet-sand absorption maps while maintaining 60 FPS in Three.js.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #74 of 342 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
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