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, Constellation Lattice (VFX Linked Particles), Reflection Tree (Recursive Tree Cubes by oosmoxiecode), Birds (compute birds), and other 3D visuals
• webgpu-tsl-linkedparticles by Christophe Choffel— MIT· Constellation Lattice
• Manifold Mandala by Liam Egan— MIT· Manifold Machine
• three-stdlib by pmndrs contributors— MIT· Plasma Ball
• THREE.Fire by mattatz— MIT· Animated noise-domain advection adapted for Explosions
• Explosion Shader by Mariana Ávalos Arce— MIT· Layered noise displacement adapted for Explosions
• 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
• Particula by Humprt Pum— MIT· Particle Equalizer organic flow

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

Creative assets

• Self-Portrait (1889) — Vincent van Gogh— Public domain· Reactive Portrait uses the original figure with an AI-reconstructed painted background
• Flight of the Navigator Trimaxion Drone Ship by carnagerulesmaximum— CC BY 4.0· Cruise keeps the original geometry and the optional First Class form reshapes it at runtime; BeamTracer replaces the original material with polished silver
• 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
• Guitar (duotone) — Phosphor Icons— MIT· Loaded through the Iconify library for the Image to Laser documentation media
• Sky Box — Sunny Day by Chad Wolfe— CC BY 3.0· Sunny outdoor environment in Water Ball and Ring Master
• Pumpkin lantern by Lorc— CC BY 3.0· Converted into laser outlines for the Halloween artwork tutorial
• Ghost — Material Design Icons by Pictogrammers— Apache 2.0· Adapted into a floating animation for the Halloween artwork tutorial

3D models

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

• “Crystal Jellyfish (Leptomedusae)” by n-— CC-BY-4.0
• “Zorag - Mutant Angler Fish - Rigged and Animated” by HighPolyDensity— CC-BY-4.0
• “Steampunk Spider” by _surovic_— CC-BY-4.0
• “X-12 Mech” by DroneMaster— CC-BY-4.0
• “Fantasy Butterfly Animation” by lalune— CC-BY-4.0
• “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).