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One picture becomes an exploding three.js robot octopus

Fokki fed Claude Opus 5.5 a single reference picture and a one-line instruction; it produced a three.js robot octopus with 202 links and 480 wheels across eight arms, which opens and reassembles over 25 seconds.

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Someone needs to stop Claude Opus 5.5. It turned one picture into a robot octopus I can take apart piece by piece.

i just said "make the model" and what came back floored me.

the build:

> the picture set the look, every petal, lens and link is three.js code
> opus rendered one still next to the picture and fixed the gaps for 3 rounds before it touched the film
> the first pass looked like a toy, so it went back and packed 202 links and 480 wheels into 8 arms
> every arm is one draw call, posed every frame by walking its chain of bends
> something opens every 2-3 seconds: the lens unscrews, the mantle hinges, the pump rises out spinning
> at 0:16 the whole thing blows apart on a 330° turntable and reassembles before the turn ends

25 seconds, 2,616 lines of code and one octopus that leaves the frame on its own.

the skill, the prompt and the live sim 👇

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