Someone gave Claude nine pictures of an ancient Greek city and one prompt. About two days later Claude had built the whole world in code: temples, giant statues, aqueducts, a harbour, 57 waterfalls and 149,000 trees, with no 3D models downloaded from anywhere.
Here's the exact prompt, how Claude worked through it, and how to run a smaller version with your own pictures.
What Claude built
- An acropolis on a cliff with a Parthenon-style temple, gold details and carved statues.
- Colossal Athena statues and dozens of smaller ones, all shaped in code.
- 57 waterfalls with spray and mist, a lagoon, a river and a sea with reflections.
- A city of houses, bridges, aqueducts and a harbour with ships.
- 149,000 cypress, olive and pine trees and shrubs, plus snowy mountains and clouds.
- Zero downloaded assets: every shape, texture and effect was written as code (three.js, a free 3D library for the web).
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