ABOUT BEAMTRACER

BeamTracer is built on the shoulders of an extraordinary open-source ecosystem. We’re grateful to every maintainer who put their work into the commons, and credit them below per their licenses.

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• Three.js— MIT· 3D visuals
• React Three Fiber & drei— MIT
• React— MIT
• Next.js— MIT
• Viktor NV-1 synth engine— MIT· OSC-1 synthesizer — by Nikolay Tsenkov (nicroto)
• tuna— MIT· Audio effects by DinahMoe
• Meyda— MIT· audio feature extraction
• Zustand— MIT
• Tailwind CSS— MIT
• React Flow (@xyflow)— MIT· modulation matrix
• Fumadocs— MIT· documentation engine at /docs
• DOMPurify— Apache-2.0 / MPL-2.0· SVG sanitization
• Lucide icons— ISC

Visualizer code

Credits for adapted code and visual inspiration, with the associated projects and authors:

• Tabler Icons by Paweł Kuna— MIT· Flying Equations chemistry illustrations
• 3D Particle Explorations by Jack Rugile— Codrops use terms· Visual inspiration for Flying Equations
• woscope by m1el— MIT· Adapted for scope CRT presets
• sketch-threejs by Yoichi Kobayashi— MIT· Distorted
• three.js examples by mrdoob & contributors— MIT· Adapted for Marble Madness, Geometric Cave, Plasma Disk, Plasma Ball, and other 3D visuals
• three-stdlib by pmndrs contributors— MIT· Plasma Ball
• webgl-noise by Ian McEwan / Ashima Arts— MIT
• FlipClock by Justin Kimbrell— MIT· Flip Clock
• Jellyfish by Aleksandar Rodic— MIT· Jellyfish
• Aurelia by Niklas Niehus (Holtsetio)— MIT· Medusae
• Audio Visualizers by Codrops— MIT· Line Dance / Lumin Thread
• Distorted Sphere Custom Material by Codrops— MIT· Displaced Sphere
• webgpu-galaxy by Dan Greenheck— MIT· Galaxy
• 260125_LavaLamp by ekimroyrp— MIT· Lava Lamp inspiration
• CSS 3D pen by Marc Bechara— MIT· Intergalactic
• Constraint by Edan Kwan— MIT· Nexus Lattice
• The-Spirit by Edan Kwan— MIT· Man In White
• Flow by David Li— MIT· Man In White
• WebGL-Audio-Visualization by Karl-Aksel Puulmann— MIT· Text Particles / Audio Reactive Torus
• Vissonance by Tariq Soliman— MIT· Fracture / Silk
• JSModeler by Viktor Kovacs— MIT· Particulate Matter
• Realtime_PyAudio_FFT by Xander Steenbrugge— MIT· spectrum / FFT analysis
• threejs (rthreejs) by B. W. Lewis— MIT· Node Nebula
• particulate-js by Ash Weeks— MIT· That's No Moon
• Arcade by Robert Leitl— MIT· Ready Player One
• 3D Earth Music Visualizer by Antonio Della Fortuna— MIT· Audio Earth
• works (water) by saharan— MIT· Adapted for Splish Splash
• Creative Black Hole by Antoine Wodniack— MIT· Event Horizon
• WebGL-Fluid-Simulation by Pavel Dobryakov— MIT· Fluid Simulation / Fire Simulation
• Interactive Particles Music Visualizer by Tiago Canzian (Codrops)— MIT· Particle Man

Additional ILDA Viewer credits: ildac32.com and possan/ilda.js. Both are gratefully acknowledged.

Creative assets

• Impossible Cube by Ruud de Rooij— CC BY 4.0· Vector drawing adapted for BeamTracer display and tutorial media
• Guadi's Honeycomb by Vernon Miller— CC BY 4.0· Shown as Gaudi Honeycomb; vector drawing adapted for BeamTracer display and tutorial media
• Sky Box — Sunny Day by Chad Wolfe— CC BY 3.0· Sunny outdoor environment in Water Ball and Ring Master

3D models

3D models used in certain visualizers are sourced from Sketchfab and credited to their authors per the Creative Commons / Sketchfab licenses:

• “Arm Chair” by VictorLimaPucMinas— CC-BY-4.0
• “Daft Punk Helmet (Guy-Manuel)” by NotGabe— CC-BY-4.0
• “Daft Punk Helmet (Thomas Bangalter)” by NotGabe— CC-BY-4.0
• “Iron Man Rig” by Darth Iron— Sketchfab Standard
• “Palm Tree - Animated” by mqumboz— CC-BY-4.0
• “Pool Float” by arloopa— CC-BY-4.0
• “LEGO - Character BASE (Rigged)” by valenteproductions— CC-BY-4.0
• “Roblox-Bacon-Hair” by Roblox— CC-BY-4.0
• “Star Wars Imperial Stormtrooper TK-736N (rigged)” by tegnemaskin— Sketchfab Standard
• “Tie Fighter (low-poly)” by ScurvyWoof— CC-BY-4.0
• “Dancing Stormtrooper” by StrykerDoesAnimation— CC-BY-4.0
• “Tron 1982 Recognizer” by Shriker1— Sketchfab Standard
• “Tron Character” by marajoos— CC-BY-4.0
• “Encom 786 — Flynn's Lightcycle (Tron: Evolution)” by Shriker1— Sketchfab Standard

Additional build- and server-side dependencies are used under their respective licenses (LGPL-3.0, MPL-2.0, Apache-2.0, BSD, ISC, and CC-BY-4.0 for browser-support data).