I worked with an LLM to build a ~3D animation of the Back to the Future delorean Time Machine as a way to spice up the hero on a docs page.

That took a fair amount of custom tuning and I had to create a tuning view to get some of the behaviors right.

But it was enough fun that I generalized it to take in ~any scene description from a film. It goes out and gets more detailed descriptions and film stills if available but also takes custom stills if you provide them.

My test scene was the Gauntlet scene from Apocalypto. It is low fidelity but does a pretty amazing sequence with somewhat believable physics of the javelins etc.

Here is the docs page with the vertical takeoff / 88 miles an hour time travel: https://contextify.sh/docs

I can share some of the Apocalypto bit if anyone is interested.

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garganzol an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The product you've built the animation for is only for macOS, which is a pity cause it has a way wider appeal than macOS market share is. You have low-hanging fruits right there, don't miss them.

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bredren 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Thank you for mentioning it and for putting your suggestion in the language you did.

That page with the time machine may not make it obvious, but the product does have a linux client!

It doesn't have the same app window and summarization of the macos version, but the transcript ingestion engine is efficient and the real value is in leveraging the database it builds using the packaged `/total-recall` or your own use of the api. (which is not yet documented but discoverable)

I am building the windows version now. I have been for the past four days. It uses a shared swift-core with the macOS and Linux versions which has been part of the reason it has taken "so long."

If anyone is on windows (or linux!) and would be willing to try it either of the clients my email is in my profile, I would be grateful.

Also I'm working up a short post with that apocolypto anim now.

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trvz an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

macOS covers 90% of people who would ever pay him.

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garganzol an hour ago | parent [-]

This is a bizarre claim to make in this case, AI tech is used on all platforms universally.

	▲	jkahrs595 8 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Literally just google “mac users more likely to pay” and you will find many such instances
	▲	thejazzman 42 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		iOS users spend dramatically more on e-commerce. I worked in e-commerce. Maybe it’s changed in the last 5 years. But that’s where the ops sentiment comes from.
	▲	siva7 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Used, yes. That alone won't pay the bill.

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manofmanysmiles 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am interested, I'd love to see! I'm waiting for the day my dad's self published books become self produced movies!