# ScottieFox/caustic-volume

> 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.

- Magnitude: 4.8 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 81 total · +20 stars today, ≈ 38 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: HTML · License: MIT · Created: 2026-09-26 · Last push: 2026-09-26
- GitHub: https://github.com/ScottieFox/caustic-volume · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ScottieFox/caustic-volume

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 20 stars so far today, about 38 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: #189.
- About 11 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @unitycoder (1,014 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 11
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 50 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 4

## Stars per day, last 8 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-09-27: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 62, 20

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #189

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
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Data as of 2026-09-27 14:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.