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
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GITHUB · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 45 upvotes (top 19%) · 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?
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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 975 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #178 of 976 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- ocean-simulation · github · 2026-09-10 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Ultra-Water · github · 2026-10-28 · 523 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- NeuralSpecOcean · github · 2026-11-06 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- open-water · github · 2026-10-20 · 113 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- globes · github · 2026-10-20 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- caustic-volume · github · 2026-09-26 · 162 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- HeatSpectra: Realtime 3D Surface Heat Simulation · hn · 2026-05-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- threejs-particle-fluids · github · 2026-09-25 · 175 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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