WebGPU

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A dithered WebGPU scene fills the screen with a dense grid of bright dots, chromatic edges, and a centered prompt to enter with audio enabled.

ASTRODITHER Turns Audio Into WebGPU Signal Noise

Robert Borghesi’s ASTRODITHER is an audio-reactive Three.js WebGPU experiment using TSL, fluid simulation, bloom, dithering, and time-warped signal noise.

Jul 1, 2026

A WebGL and WebGPU cursor experiment draws bright tubular trails that follow pointer movement across a dark canvas.

Tubes Cursor Turns the Pointer Into a WebGL Trail

Kevin Levron’s Tubes Cursor is a compact Three.js interaction experiment that turns mouse movement into glowing tubular trails and can run through WebGL or WebGPU.

Jun 30, 2026

Chrome for Developers article page announcing WebGPU updates in Chrome 149-150, including immediates and transient attachment validation.

Chrome 149-150 Brings Immediates to WebGPU

Chrome 149-150 adds WebGPU immediates, tightens transient attachment validation, and continues Dawn cleanup work. Small changes, but useful ones for developers pushing many tiny per-draw updates.

Jun 29, 2026

Evian's Bicentennial WebGPU World, Where Rain Runs Downhill

Evian's 200th turned into an alpine scene that hands everything to the GPU: rain that lands on peaks and streaks down the slopes, one wind texture every object obeys, lightning generated fresh on each strike, and 20,000 particles colliding against an SDF instead of meshes.

Jun 12, 2026

A Portfolio You Walk Through: Hot Dogtor's WebGPU Building

Paulo Pinho built his portfolio as a 3D building you wander room by room, scored by his own music. Runs on three.js WebGPU, falls back to WebGL, and ships a Basic version for everyone else. One site, three fidelity tiers, no pretending everyone's on a 4090.

Jun 11, 2026

Real-Time Global Illumination in the Browser With SATORI Engine

A WebGPU renderer where light actually bounces. Color bleeds across walls, reflections fade off the frame, and the sun slides overhead while exposure holds steady. Built on TSL nodes with a single MRT pass feeding screen-space GI and reflections. Open the GUI and break something.

Jun 10, 2026

A 9k Forest: Node-Based 3D Assets in WebGPU

Sedon wires a node graph into a real-time WebGPU renderer to grow a whole forest from about 9k of data. Rayleigh skies, rippling water, runtime LOD terrain, and a saved scene that fits in a URL. The twist: nearly every shader and pipeline was vibe coded, no engine involved.

Jun 9, 2026

GPU-Side Physics: A Three.js WebGPU Compute Demo

Thousands of instanced bodies tumble and collide, with the entire physics step running on the GPU through WebGPU compute and Three.js TSL. No CPU round trip, no framerate flinch. A clean little workbench from Kevin Levron, built to inspect, tweak, and learn from.

Jun 7, 2026

Shader Lab: Stack, Animate, and Export GPU Shaders in the Browser

A layered shader compositor that runs on WebGPU. Stack gradients, text, and TSL passes, then bend them through a CRT layer that models phosphor smear and channel convergence. Write shaders as node graphs, keyframe the knobs, and export the whole thing into React.

Jun 4, 2026

PipeMagic: A WebGPU Node Editor for Image Pipelines

A node editor for image pipelines that runs entirely in the browser. Wire up background removal, depth estimation, JFA outlines, and 2x upscale, watch WebGPU do the work, then export the graph as JSON and drop the same logic into your app in roughly 180 lines.

May 26, 2026

Noomo's 3D Storytelling Site: A Walk Through Phoenix

Noomo's storytelling site turns five client stories into rooms in a lit hallway, with animation bound to scroll instead of autoplay. Three.js doing the heavy lifting, WebGPU peeking around the corner on sister projects. Worth opening the network tab for.

May 23, 2026

Google Introduces HTML-in-Canvas API: Accessible UI Meets WebGL / WebGPU

At Google I/O 2026, Chrome engineer Thomas Nattestad unveiled the HTML-in-Canvas API, which is a new web platform feature that lets developers render HTML elements directly into canvas, WebGL, and WebGPU contexts while preserving accessibility and interactivity.

May 23, 2026

SuperSplat: Editing 3D Gaussian Splats in the Browser

A few million ellipsoids that snap into a photoreal coffee shop, an ant, the Moon. SuperSplat is a browser-based editor for cleaning up 3D Gaussian splats, with GPU-accelerated selection, unlimited undo, and a streamed LOD format for massive scenes. Open source, nothing to install.

May 19, 2026

Semantic Globe: A WebGPU Earth That Understands Plain English

Type a vibe like "somewhere cold and lonely" and watch a 3D Earth pin the answer. The text embeddings and the planet shaders share one GPU in one browser tab, no server in the loop. Joshua Lochner's quiet flex of what WebGPU can do when nobody is looking.

May 11, 2026

Crystal Words: A Snowflake for Every Word You Type

Type a word. Watch it break into a six-fold ice lattice and hang in the air like a frozen sentence. Crystal Words is a small WebGL piece by Ming Jyun Hung that grows a structurally unique snowflake from whatever you put into the keyboard.

May 9, 2026

Reze Engine: A Hand-Rolled WebGPU Renderer for MMD Characters

A hand-rolled WebGPU renderer for MMD anime characters, written in pure TypeScript with exactly one runtime dependency. Toon outlines, rim light, IK, and Bullet physics built from scratch, plus a tutorial that walks from Hello Triangle to a fully rigged, dancing character.

May 5, 2026