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Sources

creative coding and visual experiments

Recent window: last 5.1 months (2026-04-24 → 2026-09-27), compared with the prior 5.1 months.

horizontal · 361 members · Data as of 2026-09-30

These products are experimental web demos, graphic design tools, and code-based visual art projects. They are built for developers, creative technologists, and digital artists exploring procedural generation, shaders, and retro aesthetics. Unlike mainstream design platforms, this cluster centers on open-source code experiments, indie digital art, and niche interactive graphics.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
280
Prior count
55
Total count
361
Momentum
300.00
Attention
0.52
Crowding
0.97
Concentration
0.83
Opportunity
0.43

Opportunity components

Attention
0.52
Low crowding
0.03
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Low concentration
0.17

Monthly trajectory

Source split

github
182 (0.65)
hn
81 (0.29)
ph
15 (0.05)
yc
2 (0.01)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.64

Similar themes

Members

Name Source Upvotes â–² Launched
VISTAlabs PH 1 2026-09-18
SOURAV ROY PH 1 2026-09-21
VGD Technologies PH 1 2026-09-29
Coffee Notes - Faint PH 1 2026-09-15
LabTools Studio PH 1 2026-09-13
Planorf PH 1 2026-09-23
Viora UI PH 1 2026-09-14
PromPilot PH 2 2026-09-19
CADBase PH 3 2026-09-13
Scrui PH 3 2026-09-23
BLINDER PH 3 2026-09-07
VoxEdit Web PH 4 2026-09-18
Browser viz of OpenAI's "spaghetti" Navier–Stokes vortex (illustration) HN 5 2026-09-08
Taetype HN 5 2026-07-13
One hundred LLMs Generating a HTML/CSS Solar System HN 5 2026-06-18
A Sims-style house builder in the browser (Three.js, no back end) HN 5 2026-07-13
Royalty free UI avatars for Figma/React HN 5 2026-09-03
Cloth Physics in 3D CSS HN 5 2026-08-21
Paint-by-numbers pixel art that 24 strangers fill in together HN 5 2026-08-20
Made a website for downloading EU and US LiDAR scans and terrain models HN 5 2026-07-13
Tileserver-RS HN 5 2026-04-02
I built a declarative layout engine for SVG, Canvas, WebGL HN 5 2026-07-03
Micromort Risk Visualizer HN 5 2026-05-13
Open-source, 3D mockup designer for apps HN 5 2026-08-19
We built Cursor, but for data transformations (open source) HN 5 2026-03-27
JermCAD HN 5 2025-11-05
PolyCSS HN 5 2026-05-27
Helical Time HN 5 2026-09-14
A GPUdriven voxel engine with binary greedy meshing & indirectrendering HN 5 2026-07-05
Skymap HN 5 2026-05-06
Turn your cat into a Cubism Cat via an app HN 5 2026-04-13
2K Animated Images HN 5 2026-09-09
The Simpsons Hit and Run Running in the Browser (WASM/WebGL) HN 5 2026-04-15
SVO Voxelization for Gaussian Splat Collisions HN 5 2026-02-18
SindriCAD HN 5 2026-08-04
Virtual time engine to record HTML to 60fps MP4, no drops HN 5 2026-07-26
Open-source CAD in the browser (DXF-native, no install) HN 5 2026-04-19
Bastardica HN 5 2026-09-20
A zero-to-hero, spaced-repetition guide to WebGL2 and GLSL HN 5 2025-12-12
Duckle a drag-and-drop visual pipeline designer HN 5 2026-06-22
Paperverse, an Hyperbolic Presentation HN 5 2026-03-16
Mesh3d.gallery HN 5 2026-04-02
Drag-and-drop seating charts for weddings and events HN 5 2026-08-27
A voxel editor for decorating a home for a Tamagotchi-like creature HN 5 2026-06-22
Control a 3D avatar with English instead of buttons HN 5 2026-06-19
RadioPal HN 6 2026-06-11
GraphGPU HN 6 2026-03-02
Art HN 6 2026-09-05
pixel-and-ping GITHUB 6 2026-09-15
A Haskell programmable-CAD environment, in the browser with WASM HN 6 2026-07-07