ScottieFox/caustic-volume

Real-time water caustics in the browser, built on three.js. Single-file lite and sandbox versions.

Games & graphicsHTML

4.8 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 27, 2026, 13:34 UTC.

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About the project

Real-time water caustics in the browser built on three.js: sunlight bends through a moving water surface and gathers into bright shifting lines on the pool floor. Two single-file HTML versions, lite and sandbox, with no install or build step.

Useful for

Open lite/index.html to view caustics with no install or build step
Study the ~990-line source as an example of wave and caustics simulation in three.js
Run the sandbox version to push a GPU with objects, ink and a laser

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

Why it’s trending

19 stars so far today, about 39 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 81 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
Top new repositories this week: #190.
About 11 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Recent forks include notable developers: @unitycoder (1,014 followers).

Stars per day

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

Numbers

Total stars: 81
Today: 19 · ≈ 39 by evening
Forks: 10
Issues and pull requests: 0
Watchers: 0
Language: HTML
License: MIT
Created: September 26, 2026
Last push: September 26, 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 27, 2026Top new repositories this week: #190

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