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Ok, another one. I'm trying to get claude to implement a 3D calendar which matches my mental imagery for time. It's a recursive coil, like this. Claude is fine at common patterns like "implement a cone mesh". I expect it has O(0) examples of this pattern in training, though

hmm. I suspect I could get codex to do this, which means I also suspect you could get claude to do this. is your prompting cad-like? parameterization and constraints?

Hmm, what do you mean by "CAD-like"?

I'm testing having claude do it. here's my first real prompt:

result of prompt 1: I realize the first coil is the easy part, but it's good to make sure the model understands things spatially first. it's easier now to just refer to "color segments" or something

damn! what were the rough steps to get from your first prompt to this?

I mean really once I had the first coil it's very easy to ask for a coil around the coil. that's basically what I did. told it the ratio of turns (1 year coil turn to 365 day coil turns, 24 hour turns to 1 day turn), and asked for a coil around the coil with an offset parameter for each

the part that makes this like a multiday project in my mind is what the actual UX would be like. I'm thinking like the camera has a fixed position and the coil rotates/moves through its view, so you can do LOD stuff and cull the finer time coils away from the "focus spot"