Simulating three LA wildfires in the browser with WebGPU
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HN · launched Nov 5, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 86%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive 3d web simulations · 157 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -13% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Energy & climate
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The WebGPU rendering and interactive UI are vibe-codeable. A credible fire-spread model needs fuel, terrain, wind, and weather data plus fire-behavior expertise that vibe coding alone won't supply.
What it would actually take: The stack is WebGPU compute shaders running a cellular-automaton or level-set fire model, with a React or canvas front end. The hard part is physical realism: fuel maps (e.g., LANDFIRE), slope and aspect from DEMs, and wind and humidity inputs, which require GIS and wildfire-science expertise to calibrate and validate.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1759 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1462 of 1760 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 370 days after the earliest competitor.
- procedural-fire · github · 2026-10-25 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- 3D-Pixel-Campfire · github · 2026-10-24 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- woof · github · 2026-09-29 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Radix · hn · 2026-10-29 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Firemaps Spain · hn · 2026-07-29 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- BakedVoxelLighting · github · 2026-10-24 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- solstice · github · 2026-11-07 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- globes · github · 2026-10-20 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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