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MountainRIver

CUDA WebShader mountain river with seeded subsections, waterfalls and free-flight exploration

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GITHUB · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 52%) · 1 view

Niche: graphics rendering engines and libraries · 149 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial A real-time procedural mountain river simulation using WebGPU/TSL and custom compute shaders requires advanced graphics programming and numerical fluid simulation math.

What it would actually take: Implemented using WebGPU/Three.js with TSL or raw WGSL/compute shaders for procedural heightfield generation, erosion algorithms, and particle/shallow-water fluid equations. Generating smooth waterfalls, foam/spray physics, and seamless terrain LOD at high frame rates requires specialized computer graphics engineering.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 649 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #330 of 650 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.

  • WaterCuda · github · 2026-09-19 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • ClearWater6.1 · github · 2026-09-29 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • code-map · github · 2026-09-17 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • stratum · github · 2026-09-18 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • topowall · github · 2026-09-13 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • globes · github · 2026-10-20 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • mountain-flood-uav-optimization · github · 2026-09-24 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.44
  • Skymap · hn · 2026-05-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43

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