# graealex/WaveDudeNext

> A 2D wave optics simulator for Windows: place light sources and optical parts on a canvas and watch waves refract, diffract and interfere, with field and intensity views, probes and video export.

- Magnitude: 5.2 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 226 total · +3 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:02–02:09 UTC, ≈ 58 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Science & research · Language: C# · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2026-10-18 · Last push: 2026-11-09
- GitHub: https://github.com/graealex/WaveDudeNext · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/graealex/WaveDudeNext

## Useful for

- Simulate interference and diffraction of light through lenses, mirrors and fibres
- Turn a paint image into a refractive scene with emitters and absorption
- Export simulation frames as OpenEXR for analysis in NumPy or MATLAB

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:02–02:09: 223 → 226 stars (+3). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +58 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 5.3× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 3 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- The repository is 22 days old and already has 226 stars.
- Hacker News: “WaveDudeNext 2D Wave Simulator” — 45 points, 19 h ago.

## 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: 20
- Issues and pull requests: 10
- Watchers: 6
- Average over the last week: 41 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2
- Latest release: v0.1.3 (2026-11-05)

## Stars per day, last 23 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-18 … 2026-11-09: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 77, 49, 37, 64, 3

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-08 4.8, 11-09 5.2

## Hacker News

- WaveDudeNext 2D Wave Simulator — 45 points, 11 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50411083

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-09 02:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.