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Living Orrery

A real-time 3D orrery of an invented star system with orbit lines, an asteroid belt, comets, an adjustable time rate, a cinematic camera mode, and a dossier for each body.

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About this project

This experiment was performed to see how well Claude Code could handle 3D graphics. This capability opens up a wide variety of possibilities for AI-assisted development.

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The orrery viewed from a lower, sweeping camera angle in Cinematic mode, with a comet streaking in at lower left and the control panel showing Cinematic active. (view full size)
Cinematic mode moving the camera around the system on its own.
The central star highlighted with a Helion Core tooltip and the Selection panel showing its dossier: plasma core, about 5,800 K surface, stable pulse, 8 bodies. (view full size)
Clicking the central core opens its dossier in the selection panel.

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