CMU professor builds detailed 3D dragon from 27KB of code via Astra
141_1337 · reddit · 2026-10-11
A CMU graphics professor used Astra to create a detailed 3D dragon from just 27 KB of code with 25 hours of AI calls. Graphics researchers have demonstrated up to 629× faster rendering and 1,000× faster geometry evaluation using the same mathematical 3D modeling technique.
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