1906 San Francisco Market Street rebuilt in Blender

Name: 1906 San Francisco Market Street rebuilt in Blender
Uploaded: 2026-09-22T18:34:15.000Z
Duration: 8 s
Channel: Alex Albert
Description: A historically styled 3D recreation of San Francisco's Market Street before the 1906 earthquake, built in Blender by Opus 5.5 from a single prompt and rendered as a grainy black-and-white drive.

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OUR NOTEA historically styled 3D recreation of San Francisco's Market Street before the 1906 earthquake, built in Blender by Opus 5.5 from a single prompt and rendered as a grainy black-and-white drive.

THE CREATOR'S POST

I've been on a Blender kick with Opus 5.5. Its better 3D modeling and vision mean you can build an entire world from a single prompt. Historically accurate San Francisco Market street in 1906, pre-earthquake

THE PROMPT

Detailed research-and-build spec

Recreate Market Street, San Francisco as it stood on April 17, 1906, the afternoon before the earthquake, in Blender.

Scope: the Ferry Building up Market to Fifth Street, including the Palace Hotel, the Call Building, the Chronicle Building, Lotta's Fountain and the Emporium.

Before modeling anything, build a source file from: the 1899-1905 Sanborn fire insurance maps (footprints, heights, materials, occupants), the Miles Brothers film "A Trip Down Market Street" (April 1906), period photographs from OpenSFHistory, the Library of Congress and the David Rumsey collection, and USGS topography. Record every building with footprint, height, facade material, occupant, and the source for each fact with a confidence level.

Build everything in Blender Python. No downloaded meshes, textures or HDRIs. Write reusable generators (Victorian commercial facade, mansard roof, bay windows, awnings, painted signage, gas and electric street lamps, cable car, horse-drawn wagon, early automobile) and assemble the street from the source file, so every building traces back to data.

Provide a 10 second video up the street.

MAKE ONE LIKE THIS

Three steps, using what the creators in this index used.

1 · Copy the prompt
Use the prompt above as your starting point, then change the subject and the style.
HOW OTHERS WROTE THEIRS →
2 · Direct it like an editor
- Ask for one self-contained HTML file on a fixed 1920×1080 stage.
- Link this video as the reference for pacing and style.
- Send two or three rounds of specific notes.
PROMPT TEMPLATE →
3 · Render it to MP4
A short piece like this can be screen-recorded, or captured frame by frame for exact timing.
TURN AN HTML ANIMATION INTO AN MP4 →

HOW IT WAS MADE

The creator didn't name their tools. Most videos like this are HTML, canvas or SVG animation written by Claude and screen-recorded or rendered to MP4 — how that works.

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