Simon Willison · · 1 min read

.blend URL Viewer

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Tool: .blend URL Viewer

I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL).

As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs, I've always thought it would be fun to make some new ones that celebrate popular culture.

Yesterday I decided to try out the new ChatGPT Images 2.5 by running this prompt:

Generate a photo of a faberge egg that's themed after the TV show Pluribus - research first

It gave me this - honestly not bad for a first attempt!

It's a yellow Fabergé egg, half open. Inside you can clearly see Carol in her black outfit facing off against a choir of creepy white-faced joined humans. There are cacti and it has an Albuquerque New Mexico feel to it. The egg stand has a Pluribus plaque.

Then, just to see what would happen, I pasted that image into Codex running GPT-6 Astra (high) and prompted:

Use your blender local skill to create a blender model of this faverge egg

(Here's the skill file, which I created like this.)

It churned away for 17m51s and built me several .blend files. I already had this vibe-coded Blender viewing experiment lying around, so I added that to my tools collection and now you can use it to see my Pluribus blender model in your browser:

Screenshot of a web-based 3D Blender file viewer showing a rendered gold Fabergé-style jeweled egg. The top of the egg is lifted open, revealing a miniature desert diorama inside with green cacti, brown rocks, and a small black-suited figure standing in the center. The egg's shell is decorated with green gems, pearls, ornate scrollwork, a ring of smiling white egg-shaped faces, and oval medallions painted with a cactus and desert scene. The egg stands on four gold legs over a black marbled base with a gold plaque reading PLURIBUS. The URL bar reads https://github.com/simonw/vibe-coded-blender-projects/blob/main/pluribus-faberge-egg/deliverables/Pluribus_Jeweled_Egg_v1.blend with a View button; top-right buttons read Fit, Wireframe, Clear. A bottom-left info panel reads: Loaded Blender 05.01 · 7.2 MB / 387 meshes · 1099 curves · 1 text · 783,764 vertices · 1,446,560 triangles · 17 materials / Preview: approximate materials and text; unapplied modifiers are omitted. / GitHub URL resolved through jsDelivr

Tags: 3d, javascript, tools, ai, generative-ai, llms, blender, coding-agents, codex, gpt-6-astra

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