3DScience Lab

An interactive visual library of science in 3D.

200+ real-time simulations across cosmology, biology, medicine, engineering, and more — each one a standalone React component, published open source.

Cosmos

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AGN Jet
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AGN Jet

A supermassive black hole launches twin relativistic jets perpendicular to its accretion disk, extending millions of light-years to glowing radio lobes.

relativityparticlesshader
Aurora Borealis
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Aurora Borealis

Ground-level view of the northern lights — rippling green-purple curtains of atmospheric emission above a dark mountain horizon.

space-weathershaderatmosphere
Binary Eclipse
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Binary Eclipse

An orange giant and a blue dwarf circling their barycentre — viewed nearly edge-on so they take turns eclipsing.

orbitalspacephysicsscene
Black Hole
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Black Hole

A Schwarzschild lens bends and duplicates background starlight around an event horizon, wrapped by a turbulent hot accretion disk.

relativityshaderspaceraymarch
CMB Sky
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CMB Sky

A full-sky temperature anisotropy map blends dipole motion with higher-order multipole patterns.

cosmologycmbmap
Comet
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Comet

An eccentric-orbit comet shedding two physically distinct tails: fast blue ions, slow curving dust.

orbitalspaceparticlesphysics
Cosmic Web
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Cosmic Web

Matter nodes and filaments form a large-scale network, highlighting the universe's sponge-like structure.

cosmologystructureparticles
Earthrise
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Earthrise

First-person view from a low-orbit space station — procedural continents, drifting clouds, city lights, and a glowing atmospheric limb.

orbitalspaceshaderplanet
Einstein Ring
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Einstein Ring

A near-perfect source-lens alignment forms a bright Einstein ring, with magnification peaking as the source crosses the caustic.

relativityshaderlensingspace
Exoplanet Transit
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Exoplanet Transit

A planet crossing its host star creates a periodic brightness dip, shown with a live light curve.

observationphotometryorbital
Galaxy Merger
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Galaxy Merger

Two spiral galaxies approach, exchange tidal tails, and distort each other before coalescence.

stellardynamicsparticles
Globular Cluster
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Globular Cluster

Tens of thousands of old stars packed into a Plummer-profile sphere — Population II yellows, the rare blue straggler.

stellarspaceparticlesstats
Gravitational Wave Merger
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Gravitational Wave Merger

A compact binary inspirals, merges, and rings down while a chirp waveform rises in frequency and amplitude.

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Kilonova
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Kilonova

Two neutron stars spiral together in a chirping inspiral, merge in a blinding flash, then eject red-gold r-process material — the forge of gold and platinum.

stellarparticlesloop
Lagrange Points
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Lagrange Points

The five Sun-Earth equilibrium points are shown in the rotating frame, with a sample halo orbit near L2.

orbitaldynamicsthree-body
Lensing Survey
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Lensing Survey

Multiple foreground lenses shear and stretch distant galaxy images into arcs across a synthetic survey field.

relativitylensingobservation
Magnetosphere
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Magnetosphere

Solar wind streams past Earth and bends around magnetic field lines, with auroral arcs pulsing at the poles.

space-weatherplasmaorbital
Milky Way
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Milky Way

A four-armed spiral galaxy with 70k stars, a bulge, a halo, and live differential rotation — all in one shader.

stellarspaceparticlesshader
Nebula
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Nebula

Volumetric ray-march through a clumpy cloud lit by a young hot star — Hα red, OIII teal, and reflection blue.

stellarshadervolumetricspace
Planetary Nebula
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Planetary Nebula

A dying sun-like star's expelled shells glow in concentric layers — teal inner ring, blue mid shell, deep indigo halo, and a red equatorial disk around a central white dwarf.

stellarshaderspace
Protoplanetary Disk
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Protoplanetary Disk

A young star ringed by Keplerian dust, with five dark gaps carved by forming planets — a stylised HL Tau.

orbitalspaceparticlesphysics
Pulsar
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Pulsar

A neutron star with magnetic poles tilted from its rotation axis — twin beams sweep the sky like a lighthouse.

stellarspacesceneshader
Solar System
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Solar System

The Sun and nine planets with real axial tilts, Kepler-paced orbits, and Saturn's Cassini-divided rings.

orbitalspacephysicsprocedural
Supernova
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Supernova

Core collapse, ionising flash, expanding shock, and slowly fading remnant — a 16-second loop of stellar death.

stellarspaceparticlesloop
Tidal Disruption
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Tidal Disruption

A star strays too close to a supermassive black hole — tidal forces spaghettify it into a stream, half escaping, half spiralling inward to form an accretion flare.

relativityparticlessimulation
Wormhole
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Wormhole

A traversable tunnel through curved spacetime with a living interior — flowing star streaks and chromatic walls recede toward the far mouth.

relativityshaderspaceraymarch
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