Navier-Stokes Visualized as 1kB i386 demos
chaostaco
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September 13, 2026
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chaostaco
I was making a web project about some of my 1996 era 386 graphics code when I saw the visualizations related to the recent solution to the smoothness problem of Navier-Stokes and thought "that would look cool as a 90s-era demo". So here you go, a palette cycler and a particle animation, both using the real equations and both as sub-1kB binaries, rendered online via js-dos/DOSBox as well as JavaScript ports with knobs to go far beyond 386 quality. All source and pre-compiled 386 binaries included and free in every way. And since I know this is divisive on HN, I should be up front that this effort was AI-assisted, but hey, so was OpenAI's solution of the Millennium problem that inspired my effort.