Aureliengmz/clearwater

Real-time, photoreal shallow water in a single HTML file. WebGL2, no libraries, no build step.

Games & graphicsHTML#caustics#fft#realtime-rendering#shaders#single-file

6.1 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 24, 2026, 01:26 UTC.

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About the project

Real-time photoreal water demo in a single HTML file using WebGL2, no libraries or build step: FFT waves, caustics, refraction and glare.

Useful for

Open index.html in a browser to view the water demo without installing anything
Study the shaders and parameters for FFT waves, caustics and post-processing in one file
Take screenshots with frozen time using the ?t=5 URL option

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 117 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 1 day old and already has 132 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #145.
About 63 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Recent forks include notable developers: @robertpenner (584 followers).

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 132
Today: 0 · ≈ 117 by evening
Forks: 23
Issues and pull requests: 1
Watchers: 0
Language: HTML
License: MIT
Created: September 23, 2026
Last push: September 23, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 24, 2026Top new repositories this week: #145

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