Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
A project is using AI models like Claude Opus 5.5 to simulate the process of painting on a digital canvas. The AI generates brushstroke code to create art in the style of historical painters, which is then rendered as a simulation.
Why it matters
This demonstrates the evolving capability of LLMs to perform complex, multi-step creative tasks beyond simple text generation.
▶ Summer Evening on the Meadows before the Town
Claude Opus 5.5, after Caspar David Friedrich. The model wrote every brushstroke as code and a simulation of oil paint carried them out, replayed here sped up. No image generator.
Winter Evening with a Ruined Choir Round 2 · Claude Opus 5.5, high reasoning ▶ Watch it being painted The thing about round two is that it almost moved something in me, especially the winter one. Alice, who runs the project Judging blind, three AI painters each ranked it above their own.
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