Dev Recreates Apple's 'Wonderful Tools' Animation with Opus 5.5, HTML and SVG
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-09-26
Developer DavidKPiano, skeptical of the Opus 5.5 motion-graphics hype, tested it himself: using HTML, CSS, SVG, JS, and lots of prompts, he recreated Apple's "Wonderful Tools" animation.
The result isn't perfect, but he was genuinely impressed and published the code on CodePen — a credible hands-on test of frontier models' front-end motion capabilities.
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