r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 9h ago

visualize the electro-magnetic field

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I’ve been building this antenna/EM simulator as a side project:

https://rotemtsafrir.github.io/dipole_sim/

The idea is to make it easy to place antennas, change their parameters, and immediately see how the fields and interference patterns change.

Right now you can use:

  • center-fed dipoles
  • Hertzian dipoles
  • small loop antennas
  • linear antenna arrays

The arrays are probably my favorite part so far. You can adjust spacing, phase difference, element count, orientation, etc., and see beam steering / broadside / end-fire behavior directly.

You can switch between electric field, magnetic field, and energy-flow visualizations, and pan/zoom around the simulation.

The antenna currents are prescribed, so things like mutual coupling, impedance, and passive conductors are not solved yet. I’m trying to keep it fast enough to be genuinely interactive.

I’d love to hear what people think—especially if you notice anything physically questionable or have ideas for features that would make it more useful.

Live:
https://www.antennasim.com

GitHub:
https://github.com/rotemTsafrir/dipole_sim


r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 1d ago

A live zoo of the bots and crawlers visiting one website, with a trap for the ones that ignore robots.txt

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3.3k Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 1d ago

A site that tells you how rare your birthday is using 85 million real births from official records

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0 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 2d ago

Turn your keyboard into a musical instrument and jam with up to three friends, right in the browser

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13 Upvotes

Free public beta: https://livejam.conde.workers.dev

Happy to answer questions about the sync and the looper.


r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 2d ago

Interactive map that rescales cities based on population density as you drag

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29 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 2d ago

A browser fractal explorer seeded with thousands of wallpapers found by searching fractal space for hundreds of hours. Zoom, recolor, and download any view at any resolution.

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198 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 3d ago

A tool to find quiet weeks to go on holiday, avoiding school & public holidays, weighted by visitor countries to your destination

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158 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 4d ago

Every Pho Number

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282 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 5d ago

A web page that copies files between your Mac and Android phone over USB (Chrome)

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120 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 6d ago

Solar system sim, built for physical accuracy.

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117 Upvotes

I made a 3D interactive solar system you can navigate and set to any date between 1000 and 3000. The positions of the planets and moons are computed from VSOP87-type models and checked against JPL Horizons data, accurate to within 30 arcseconds for planets and 30 km for the Moon over 1800-2050, so eclipses, alignments, and moon phases are physically real. It's still a work in progress, so feedback is wanted. If you try it and something feels off, confusing, or worth adding, I'd be glad to hear it.


r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 7d ago

BJJ Tournaments - a free site that lists every upcoming Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in one searchable list

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0 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 8d ago

FLAPBOARD — turn any TV into a split-flap board

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90 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 9d ago

I made a 3D globe where you can drag a slider to drain the oceans or flood the whole planet

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738 Upvotes

Hi all, I've been working on this and thought some of you might enjoy it: https://slidingshores.com

It's a 3D globe with one slider, which you can Drag left to the sea drain away, all the way down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Drag it right and the water rises until it goes over the top of Mount Everest. The coastlines change as you move it, and a counter shows how much of the planet is dry land.

There are also some preset buttons for real moments in Earth's history, plus a few possible futures:

  • Ice Age (−120 m): Britain joins back up with Europe through Doggerland, and you can walk from Siberia to Alaska
  • Mediterranean drained (−1,500 m): about 5.5 million years ago the Med almost completely dried up. When the Atlantic broke back through at Gibraltar, it may have refilled in a matter of months
  • Ridges surface (−3,800 m): the mid-ocean ridge comes out of the water, and it turns out to be the longest mountain range on the planet
  • Greenland melts (+7 m) and All ice melts (+70 m), for a cheerful ending 🙃

The elevation data is NOAA's ETOPO 2022, which covers both the land and the sea floor. It's a bit of fun rather than a scientific model, since it doesn't account for where the water would actually go, but the heights and depths are real.

Enjoy!


r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 10d ago

Sending Bubbles Worldwide Since 2001

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204 Upvotes

Press a button to blow bubbles in a Florida backyard from anywhere in the world.


r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 12d ago

Free citation tree generator. Explore scientific literature on a timeline.

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24 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 14d ago

A quiet room at the bottom of the ocean, made to be left open on your second monitor

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884 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 15d ago

An endless, zoomable pixel animation of a space station floor that one artist has been expanding every weekend since 2022

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floor796.com
1.7k Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 16d ago

Interactive tree of life explorer

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134 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 18d ago

ASCII CITY LIVE -- watch an ASCII animated cityscape, chat with other visitors, with synthwave soundtrack

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28 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 18d ago

Cancer Resource Guide

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154 Upvotes

I used to intern at a hospital and while shadowing I realized it can be really hard for cancer patients to get connected to nonprofits/organizations that provide free services for them, even though many exist out there. These resources are scattered across the internet and can be hard to find.

I made this website with over 100 free cancer-support resources. They include everything from meals to wigs to transportation to treatment. You can filter the directory by resource type and location to find resources that are most relevant to you.

I originally started this with just a handful of local resources as a small side project, but I realized it can genuinely be useful to many people.

I'm putting this out there because I hope it actually helps someone.


r/InternetIsBeautiful • • 22d ago

The Rasterbator

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311 Upvotes

Goated website for making Big posters.


r/InternetIsBeautiful • • Sep 03 '26

Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator

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877 Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • Sep 03 '26

1996 dial-up simulator. A full working desktop, a browser, and a web that loads at actual 56k.

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1.5k Upvotes

r/InternetIsBeautiful • • Sep 03 '26

I got tired of frantically googling "is this plant safe for cats" so I built a free database of pet-toxic plants.

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574 Upvotes

Basically, what's in the title.

I built this site over 3.5 years ago and have only recently given it a fresh coat of paint. I haven't really done anything to spread awareness, but thought I might give it a go on this sub to gauge interest.

The idea started with the classic houseplant-owner problem: you see a nice plant, you have pets and suddenly you're deep in ten tabs of conflicting, ad-stuffed info trying to work out if it'll hurt them.

So I built Plant Smart as a general guide. You can search by plant name (common or scientific) and see severity, which animals it affects and what symptoms to look for. There's also a reverse-lookup: if your pet is already showing symptoms, you can search by those and narrow down the culprit.

It's completely free, ad-free, slop-free, no account needed and has an open API you're more than welcome to use if you want to build off it. All collated data is open and sources are all mentioned in the attributions page.

EDIT #1: I just wanted to thank everyone for their support and kind words. This is a fairly old project by my personal standards and the recent facelift has breathed some new life into it. I've already started working on some of your recommendations / feature requests and am giving the dataset a much-needed scrub for accuracy while also pulling in some new open reputable sources to further enrich the data. Have a great week!

EDIT #2: I've taken the time to pretty much implement most of your great suggestions! You can head over to the site to check it out, or read about the updates in detail on my blog. It's been super-fun working through the list! Thanks again, everyone!


r/InternetIsBeautiful • • Sep 02 '26

1in7: For navigating Endometriosis and Adenomyosis! (Dolly Parton had Endo!)

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Made a super comprehensive resource listicle for navigating Endometriosis and Adenomyosis.

Here's the Github resource list related to 1in7: https://github.com/bloo-berries/Awesome-Endo-Adeno-Resources

Made specifically because these conditions are under-represented, under-researched, and scientific research is getting pulled from databases!