Real-time 4D Julia set navigation via gamepad
Details
- External ID
- 45895864
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Real-time 4D Julia set navigation via gamepad
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Nov. 12, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6528384279475983
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I've written Atlas, a GPU scripting language that eliminates the boilerplate of managing textures and uniforms. Here are some demos including 4D fractal exploration with gamepad controls. Press 7 to see the Julia set, and try reloading if you see rectangles/it glitches. Documentation: https://banditcat.github.io/Atlas/index.html *requires approximately an RTX 3080.
Enrichment
- Theme
- graphics rendering and visual tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive julia set visualization
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No The author created Atlas, a custom GPU domain-specific programming language and WebAssembly runtime, which requires deep expertise in compiler engineering and graphics math.
What it would actually take: Building this requires developing a compiler pipeline (lexer, parser, code generator) targeting WGSL/SPIR-V or WebGL shader uniforms, integrated into an Emscripten/Wasm C++ host environment. It also requires advanced mathematical knowledge of 4D quaternion geometry and raymarching algorithms optimized for real-time GPU rendering.
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Competitors
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