Fractal visualizer styled as handcrafted paper and cardboard
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OUR NOTEAn interactive Mandelbrot-style fractal visualizer rendered to look like layered paper and cardboard cutouts, with cinematic post-processing and shader effects; the creator asked for a plan and preview before any code was written.
a paper fractal browser with @claudeai opus 5.5...
link and prompt belowTHE PROMPT
Plan-first art-direction briefbuild an art project which is a fractal visulizer (mandelbrot, etc), but the styles look like handcrafted with paper, cardboard and such. Add post-procesing so it looks cinematic. Also want to use beautitful elaborated animations and transitions and a beautiful UX. Plan it first, show me a preview before coding everythingMAKE 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.
- 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 →
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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