Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
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Details
- External ID
- 49928566
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
- Website domain
- stillwet.art
- Launched
- Oct. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 193
- Upvotes percentile
- 1.0
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and interactive graphics
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- simulated paint canvas for llm experimentation
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The LLM orchestration and web frontend are easy to vibe-code, but physically simulating realistic viscous oil paint mixing, pigment blending, and drying requires complex physics and graphics programming.
What it would actually take: A realistic version requires a WebGL or WebGPU physics simulation engine modeling viscous fluid dynamics (Navier-Stokes equations) and optical pigment blending via Kubelka-Munk theory. Developing this requires specialized expertise in real-time computer graphics, GLSL/WGSL shader development, and numerical simulation.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Training AI to Paint with Code
Concerns raised: Uncanny valley artifacts like nonsensical clusters of churches, Relying on AI-generated self-assessments instead of human critique
Feature requests: More details on the technical generation process, Physical robot integration with real paint and canvas
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 298 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 299 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- SuperPaint · hn · 2026-03-29 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Generating Pixel Art Sprites · hn · 2026-08-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- memory-fading-into-watercolor · github · 2026-09-27 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- claude-opus-5-5-demo · github · 2026-09-23 · 821 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- xilo-opus-video · github · 2026-09-28 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Minimalist Glitch Art Maker (100% client-side) · hn · 2026-02-17 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- OpenLayer · hn · 2026-08-28 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- OpusSkate · github · 2026-09-22 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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