steel-webgpu
WebGPU port of Newton's SolverSteel colored articulated contact path
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GITHUB · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 26 upvotes (top 81%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized algorithms and computing libraries · 230 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -73% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Porting a contact solver from Newton to WebGPU requires specialized physics-engine and GPU compute expertise, and vibe coding cannot reliably reproduce numerically correct, performant solvers.
What it would actually take: A real version needs a faithful port of Newton's articulated-body contact solver (graph coloring, Gauss-Seidel-style iterations, and Featherstone-style articulated dynamics) into WGSL compute shaders. Making it correct and fast requires physics simulation expertise, GPU parallelism and synchronization knowledge, and careful numerical validation against the reference implementation.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #1941 of 2403 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 376 days after the earliest competitor.
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