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Wave

Layered gradient wave backgrounds using Three.js and shaders

Details

External ID
49843746
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Wave
Website domain
subworkflow.ai
Launched
Sept. 25, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
7
Upvotes percentile
0.4393939393939394
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.

Description

Hello! I built this static tool to generate wavy backgrounds for posts, socials and landing pages and decided to share it for free for anyone looking for the same.This tool uses three.js/canvas rather than svg: a full-screen quad and a fragment shader which makes for soft shadows, smoother blurs and glass effects. Hit the randomize button to get a good shape + colour combination, optionally tweak using the vector tool, save designs to local storage and export to image or video.What's the point? I started out thinking this would be something "easy" and that I could build in about an hour but turns out it does take a bit more effort to make it "look good". You can use the backgrounds for content or an over-engineered colour picker or just chill with it in fullscreen mode.Screenshot: https://cdn.subworkflow.ai/marketing/wave-by-subworkflow-scr...Enjoy!

Enrichment

Theme
graphic design assets and utilities
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
gradient wave background generator for web developers
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a client-side Three.js web tool that runs custom GLSL fragment shaders on a full-screen quad to export images and loops.

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