creative coding and visual experiments
Recent window: last 5.2 months
(2026-04-24 → 2026-09-28), compared with the prior
5.2 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
- 291
- 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
Source split
- github
- 192 (0.66)
- hn
- 82 (0.28)
- ph
- 15 (0.05)
- yc
- 2 (0.01)
Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.65
Members
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Name
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Source
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Upvotes â–¼
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Launched
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| Turn every PR into animated architecture diagrams (open-source) |
HN |
6 |
2026-08-27 |
| Browser DevTools MCP Empire a tiny pixel world built in Cursor |
HN |
6 |
2026-04-08 |
| "Flying Toasters!" reverse-engineered 1:1, in the browser |
HN |
6 |
2026-08-25 |
| RadioPal |
HN |
6 |
2026-06-11 |
| HyperFrames |
HN |
6 |
2026-04-16 |
| HeatSpectra: Realtime 3D Surface Heat Simulation |
HN |
6 |
2026-05-08 |
| thorvg.toolkit |
GITHUB |
6 |
2026-09-12 |
| pixel-and-ping |
GITHUB |
6 |
2026-09-15 |
| Hibi |
HN |
6 |
2026-09-21 |
| Generating Pixel Art Sprites |
HN |
6 |
2026-08-13 |
| chatsheet-recreation |
GITHUB |
6 |
2026-09-13 |
| Art |
HN |
6 |
2026-09-05 |
| ImPlot v1.0 |
HN |
6 |
2026-04-05 |
| An x86 assembly game from 2002, ported to WebAssembly with Claude Code |
HN |
6 |
2026-02-15 |
| GraphGPU |
HN |
6 |
2026-03-02 |
| We made Arcad, a parametric CAD in the browser, free and no signup |
HN |
6 |
2026-08-02 |
| Paint-by-numbers pixel art that 24 strangers fill in together |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-20 |
| Duckle a drag-and-drop visual pipeline designer |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-22 |
| Open-source, 3D mockup designer for apps |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-19 |
| Made a website for downloading EU and US LiDAR scans and terrain models |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-13 |
| One hundred LLMs Generating a HTML/CSS Solar System |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-18 |
| SindriCAD |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-04 |
| Bastardica |
HN |
5 |
2026-09-20 |
| Turn your cat into a Cubism Cat via an app |
HN |
5 |
2026-04-13 |
| Control a 3D avatar with English instead of buttons |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-19 |
| Tileserver-RS |
HN |
5 |
2026-04-02 |
| PolyCSS |
HN |
5 |
2026-05-27 |
| The Simpsons Hit and Run Running in the Browser (WASM/WebGL) |
HN |
5 |
2026-04-15 |
| Open-source CAD in the browser (DXF-native, no install) |
HN |
5 |
2026-04-19 |
| We built Cursor, but for data transformations (open source) |
HN |
5 |
2026-03-27 |
| Micromort Risk Visualizer |
HN |
5 |
2026-05-13 |
| Helical Time |
HN |
5 |
2026-09-14 |
| Skymap |
HN |
5 |
2026-05-06 |
| JermCAD |
HN |
5 |
2025-11-05 |
| A zero-to-hero, spaced-repetition guide to WebGL2 and GLSL |
HN |
5 |
2025-12-12 |
| Paperverse, an Hyperbolic Presentation |
HN |
5 |
2026-03-16 |
| A voxel editor for decorating a home for a Tamagotchi-like creature |
HN |
5 |
2026-06-22 |
| Virtual time engine to record HTML to 60fps MP4, no drops |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-26 |
| Taetype |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-13 |
| A Sims-style house builder in the browser (Three.js, no back end) |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-13 |
| Drag-and-drop seating charts for weddings and events |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-27 |
| A GPUdriven voxel engine with binary greedy meshing & indirectrendering |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-05 |
| Royalty free UI avatars for Figma/React |
HN |
5 |
2026-09-03 |
| Browser viz of OpenAI's "spaghetti" Navier–Stokes vortex (illustration) |
HN |
5 |
2026-09-08 |
| Cloth Physics in 3D CSS |
HN |
5 |
2026-08-21 |
| 2K Animated Images |
HN |
5 |
2026-09-09 |
| SVO Voxelization for Gaussian Splat Collisions |
HN |
5 |
2026-02-18 |
| Mesh3d.gallery |
HN |
5 |
2026-04-02 |
| I built a declarative layout engine for SVG, Canvas, WebGL |
HN |
5 |
2026-07-03 |
| VoxEdit Web |
PH |
4 |
2026-09-18 |