web-ocean
Real-time WebGPU ocean renderer written from scratch, no engine. FFT waves, whitecaps, sun glitter, physically based sunset sky with clouds, free camera. Built with Claude Code (Opus 5.5). Opens from a single 61 KB HTML file in Chrome.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 800 upvotes (top 1%)
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes The page shows a single-file WebGPU ocean renderer using known techniques (Tessendorf FFT waves, Rayleigh and Mie scattering, sky model), and it was stated to have been built with Claude Code.
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Attention rank: #2 of 132 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.
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