Manolit∞ Aire
Open-source 3D solar radiation and shadow mapping tool
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Details
- External ID
- 1266929
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Manolit∞ Aire
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3309652131308182
- Tags
- Artificial Intelligence, GitHub, Maps, Climate Tech
- Fetched at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 4, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Manolito Aire is a 100% open-source alternative to Shadowmap. It allows you to simulate and visualize 3D solar radiation, sun paths, and real-time shadow positioning over geographical maps. Perfect fo1 urban planners, environmental researchers, or anyone tracking sun exposure. It is fully transparent, free to use, and community-driven. Explore accurate solar data and shadow behavior across different times and locations with ease.
Enrichment
- Theme
- clean energy and power infrastructure
- Vertical
- Energy & climate
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source 3d solar radiation and shadow mapping tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Rendering 3D maps in WebGL is standard, but accurate solar radiation simulation and astronomical shadow casting over 3D terrain requires specialized geospatial mathematics and shaders.
What it would actually take: Building this requires Maplibre GL / Three.js / Cesium for geospatial 3D visualization, fed by OpenStreetMap 3D building data and digital elevation models (DEMs). The core challenge is writing custom GPU shaders for accurate solar trajectory calculations (e.g., PSA/SPA algorithms) and casting realistic, high-resolution soft shadows over complex urban topography in real time.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 18 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 19 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 227 days after the earliest competitor.
- A map of cafes that are in the sun · hn · 2026-07-16 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ShadowFinder — Sun Position & Shadow · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data · hn · 2026-05-02 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- AirPath · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Meteoric — Drones that clear clouds over solar farms and ultimately weaken hurricanes · yc · 2026-08-21 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- nrgise-open · github · 2026-09-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Thermohélie · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- MirageUI · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.33
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