M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown
Details
- External ID
- 47642601
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- M. C. Escher spiral in WebGL inspired by 3Blue1Brown
- Website domain
- laszlokorte.de
- Launched
- April 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 176
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9505141388174807
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
The latest 3Blue1Brown video [1] about the M. C. Escher print gallery effect inspired me to re-implement the effect as WebGL fragment shader on my own.[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- webgl visualization tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a self-contained WebGL/GLSL shader and HTML canvas demo implementing a known conformal mapping formula explained in existing math literature and YouTube videos.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, Blender for animation, Three.js
Concerns raised: High resolution requirements for sharp zoom at all scales, Multi-touch controls not fully implemented, WebGL debugging difficulty, Mobile Chrome pinch-to-zoom broken, Need to know position of smaller copy in uploaded image
Feature requests: Proper multi-touch gestures (zoom, pan, rotate), Allow upload of arbitrary images, Swiping controls, Better WebGL debugging tools
Competitors
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Attention rank: #10 of 126 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 155 days after the earliest competitor.
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