I'm making a LED Camel Totem for Burning Man. I had the idea to make a Koons-style balloon animal. I explored this idea with ChatGPT, asking it to make some r

I'm making a LED Camel Totem for Burning Man. I had the idea to make a Koons-style balloon animal. I explored this idea with ChatGPT, asking it to make some reference images. I also asked for some prompt generation. I have weak sketching abilities (it's on my list to improve), so this is how I "storyboard". To be cheeky, I asked Claude to make balloon simulator from which I could eventually drop into Fusion360 to muck with and 3D print. CamelKoons was born! [1] I wanted a Golang backend and web frontend. Fable pretty much one-shotted the step-one scaffolding: Golang physical simulation of a single balloon, streaming geometry to a Web application. Vibed through various issues and then step two was multiple balloons with twists (which were just choke points). In the world of disposable, hyper-focused software, this tool remained static to Dromedary Camel topologies. A generalized topology feature is left as an exercise for the reader's LLM. I like empowering my agents to loop [2]. So, I used Claude-in-Chrome to do some loops where Claude positioned the Camel and could screenshot it. I also gave it an HTTP endpoint to position the camera for itself and me. Eventually, I wanted to push views and comments from the Web page, so I added a comment box. Claude Code used its new-to-me "monitoring" feature to watch for that action and react to it in the session. Claude made itself a "look-at-camel" skill, so cute! [3] While the balloons were looking interesting, I noted it wasn't very Koons-like and Claude reminded me that Koons was art and we were doing physical simulation. So then we started distorting the physical model. Of course we also added model export, etc. After tokenmaxxing, I ended up with something that was a cross between a poop emoji and an alien dildo. I'm now learning the Forms feature in Fusion360 and following a great balloon-dog tutorial on YouTube. I think this guitar approach will win out over my Guitar Hero approach. [1] https://github.com/cameltopia/CamelKoons https://github.com/cameltopia/CamelKoons [2] https://github.com/ConAcademy/WeaselToonCadova https://github.com/ConAcademy/WeaselToonCadova [3] https://github.com/Cameltopia/CamelKoons/blob/main/.claude/skills/look-at-camel/SKILL.md https://github.com/Cameltopia/CamelKoons/blob/main/.claude/s...