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Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2

Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2

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Comments (57)

  • evnp
    Super loud sound warning, us parents and folks wearing headphones would really appreciate default sound off. Or at least a some indication to turn volume down before tapping "pour"
  • smusamashah
    Found source repo here https://github.com/av/safe-sand
  • alex_duf
    On a mobile phone it makes a lot more sense. Try shaking it!
  • nkmnz
    Something seems wrong with the stones. They seem to move way to fast. They need more friction.
  • bob1029
    I like how when my phone's forward vector is aligned with world up all the sand falls out.
  • momojo
    This brings me a lot of joy. I love little toys that exist for no other reason than "I really want this to be a thing"
  • weitzj
    Does it make Patterns if you put a sine wave on your phone's speaker? What are they called? Moirée patterns?
  • smusamashah
    oh wow, the stones even have some water around them. This looks and feels real.And if you manage to collect a lot in one place, the sand from the pile does fall like real sand. This is amazing.The sound is not good though.
  • lavendermon
    Tried this on desktop and mobile, totally different experiences. I love the residue effect on the screen after I tilt the sand around on mobile. Next step: hourglass or maybe a snow globe?
  • cat-whisperer
    a full circle moment
  • mashally
    It was a lot of fun. I wrote I love you phrase to my gf and she liked it.
  • asaddhamani
    I just spent 15 mins playing with this on my phone, it was a lot of fun!
  • matt3210
    Finally, the kind of sandbox we deserve
  • yipinwong
    I felt like a kid playing with real sand in decades playing with this.
  • kccqzy
    It didn’t look realistic to me until I added `?sand=beach` to the URL. Maybe I only associate sand from the beach as sand. Others I call silt perhaps incorrectly.
  • int32max
    woah this is really well done
  • hamidmohaqeq
    This is really cool and give a realistic sense
  • techpression
    I wouldn’t call it realistic, sand gets stuck in the air, stones don’t rotate, and there’s quite an uncanny valley effect based on angles. Still a cool demo of what is possible, even though I get 10fps or something on a iPhone 15 Pro
  • tgtweak
    This one does much better at retaining volume than the smudge demo last week :)
  • itomato
    You can play a nice little round of Bocce with the stones
  • Teladin
    Seeing all the Macbook Pro PROLED XDR Touch Screen geeks finding a use for their new device :D
  • cheapcheerful
    Wow man, very cool.
  • amunozo
    I am feeling the sand physically at watching at this, good job!
  • arm32
    This is very fun to play with.
  • customguy
    Zooming on the desktop makes it more dense looking, which is probably not intended but can look very cool IMO.
  • wigster
    i feel like i'm watching a stop-motion movie as it moves. very nice
  • hvvivek
    this is super fun! well done
  • samiv
    Cue the whines about not using WebGPU.
  • emilfihlman
    I think it's lacking momentum, the sand stops way too abruptly, and the audio also has too harsh cutoff. It also falls too fast.Otherwise really amazing!
  • turadg
    anyone who likes that should touch grasshttps://grass.turadg.com/
  • nout
    This is annoying to clean up exactly like real sand.
  • christkv
  • anon
    undefined
  • lloydatkinson
    Runs like crap on iPhone 14. I know it’s not the current generation of phone but is there really that meaningful of a difference between that and a current one?
  • Razengan
    Naturally the first instinct of man is to draw a penis.