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Sources

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

Monthly trajectory

Source split

github
192 (0.66)
hn
82 (0.28)
ph
15 (0.05)
yc
2 (0.01)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.65

Similar themes

Members

Name Source Upvotes â–¼ Launched
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