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I wonder how long it took to come up with all this?

Because if I wanted a spiral of little "buttons" like the last one at the end (and they don't look very much like sweets) I'd be able to knock that out in Blender in an afternoon, and I'm not very good at Blender.

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I think you're vastly overestimating the average persons ability to use Blender if you can do that in an afternoon; just figuring out how to place a colored cube and the camera probably takes an afternoon if you pick up Blender for the first time.

Yeah, I've bounced off Blender twice now. And I've written a (basic) 3D modeller.

I think part of the problem is that pretty much all the tutorial material for Blender seems to be in video form, which is easily my least effective way to learn, even leaving aside the "I've only got one screen" issue.

And knowing these little tricks to get what you want with image generation models also takes time. Not to mention you need some knowledge on some other software just to make the underlying layout.

I guess I'm coming at it from having used Blender for an afternoon or so, and already knowing Python.

If you were good at GLSL you could do it in that maybe.

Someone somewhere is going to write something that directly draws it to a framebuffer in Brainfuck, you just know it, don't you?

I'd just do it with Pillow.

OP here. It took me an afternoon to try different methods and test the limits. But now we know how it works it’s very fast to create new ones:

1. Prompt to make SVG - review in browser, iterate.

2. Prompt to write image prompt - review in editor, refine

3. Send to Gemini, get image

So maybe 5-10 mins.

I don’t know how to use Blender.

Also this method can be done over WhatsApp/telegram which is another plus over Blender type approach.

I remember opening Blender for the first time years ago and thinking it had the steepest learning curve of any software I'd ever used.

It's not perfect, but it's been vastly improved in recent years. If you lost interest in 3D art because of Blender's bad UX in the past, I recommend you give it another shot.

Also, there might be other new 3D software with better UX. I am not a Blender fanboy, but I do love 3D art and graphics programming and want as many people as possible to get into it :^)

Yeah somewhere between 2 and 3 it got a very much improved UI.

I think 2.8 is where the Blender Foundation showed their commitment to improving the UX, but it just continually kept going from there

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