One Opus prompt turned 400M hexagons of population data into a stunning 3D Scotland map
zsakib_ · x · 2026-11-07
A developer used a single prompt with Claude Opus — which wrote all the Python and Blender code — to produce a striking 3D population-density visualization of Scotland:
- Data: Kontur population data (400M hexagons, totaling 5.53M people, matching the real figure)
- Clipped to Scotland's coastline; each hexagon is a column in Blender, taller = more people
- Real terrain added so the Highlands get bumps (mountains stay lilac, only people go pink); low western sun for long shadows, rendered on a MacBook GPU
- Color ramp from lilac (empty) to pink/plum (dense), exported at 4096px
A reproducible "geo data + LLM-written code + Blender" recipe.
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