One worksheet photo plus AI yields 7 interactive 3D physics labs in 45 minutes, ~€10 in tokens
rschu · x · 2026-09-08
The author, a longtime advocate of VR and 3D visualization in education, photographed his child's physics worksheet, fed it to a modern language model, and asked for an interactive website where parameters could be tweaked and experiments observed in 3D.
About 45 minutes later he had seven interactive experiments with 3D visualization, live diagrams, and German/English explanations — at an estimated API cost of roughly €10. Examples include adjusting a car's mass and acceleration, analyzing a soccer shot, watching a piston mechanism, and simulating how bending your knees cushions landing forces.
His core point: the bottleneck for interactive learning content has always been effort — 20+ years ago building similar Flash-based modules took enormous work; now a photo of a worksheet is enough as a starting point. He argues such positive use cases belong in the debate over AI bans in schools, while conceding the output is a starting point, not finished teaching material.
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