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WebHeat: GPU-Powered Thermal Simulation for Any STL File

A high school senior learned Newton's law of cooling in class, then built a full thermal simulation in the browser. Drop in any STL, watch heat propagate through voxelized geometry on the GPU. WebGPU compute shaders, React frontend, and a useRef trick that keeps it all from falling apart.

Feb 7, 2026

Game of 3D Life: Conway's Cellular Automaton with WebGPU

Conway's Game of Life in three dimensions. Simulation and rendering both run on the GPU via WebGPU compute shaders. No frameworks, just vanilla JS and hundreds of thousands of instanced cubes. Fly through the clusters as they evolve.

Jan 31, 2026

Party: A WebGPU Particle Physics Playground

Thousands of particles swarm and collide with real physics, all running on WebGPU compute shaders. Party lets you tweak gravity, forces, and constraints live. It's part demo, part instrument.

Jan 23, 2026

Deferred Rendering in WebGPU: Sponza with 400+ Compute-Driven Point Lights

Georgi Nikolov's WebGPU renderer puts 400+ point lights in the classic Sponza atrium. Deferred shading, cascaded shadows, Hi-Z reflections, TAA. Clean architecture that handles WebGPU's explicit pipelines without drama.

Jan 13, 2026

Holiday Snow Globe

Michael Modena's holiday snow globe uses WebGPU compute shaders to create volumetric snow that actually fills the dome with mesh-based particles generating proper normals. Plus a Porsche GT3 drifts inside. It's a Christmas card that doubles as a lighting and compute shader stress test.

Dec 23, 2025