AI builds a physics-simulated violin and plays Bach by bowing it like a human
Short-Patient7772 · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Reddit user had AI assistant Astra build a digital violin inside a physics engine: the AI must draw the bow across strings and form chords exactly like a human player, and wrong motion produces bad sound (the author verified). It ended up performing a piece by Bach.
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