Observed arrival · 2026-10-03
A wind tunnel you can rearrange in your browser
VortexYard is an interactive 3D airflow experiment where you place and adjust shapes in a browser-based wind tunnel.
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✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
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- For
- People exploring airflow around shapes
- Worth noticing
- Imported meshes are limited to closed STL/OBJ files under 10 MB and 60,000 triangles.
Field notes
Users can orbit and zoom the view, drag objects, nudge them with arrow keys, and duplicate or delete selections. The grid-quality menu warns that switching settings reloads the page and resets shapes, with a lower-resolution option suggested for slow frame rates. The page distinguishes visual choices such as advected dye and vorticity coloring from validated physical measurements.
Observed signals
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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