Ethan Mollick turns Starship catch footage into interactive 3D web scene with one prompt

emollick · x · 2026-11-16

Ethan Mollick shared an agent demo he calls something that "would have seemed impossible a few months ago": with a single natural-language prompt, the agent searched for video and images of the Starship mechacatch, then rendered the final 40 seconds in highly detailed Three.js with switchable views including cut-away blueprints.

He published the full prompt, which included instructions to:

Make the main view stunning with mechac arms, cloud deck and the rocket, drop the crowd, and focus on the through-breakout cloud sequence
Fix flashing/strobing on the ocean in some views and get the engine plume looking right
Host the scene synced to the webcast replay for side-by-side viewing
Run a high-thread polish pass on a second model/thread after the main render finished

The result is a hosted, interactive web page requiring zero code from the user, showcasing how far agents now go on multi-step research-plus-3D-development tasks.

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Ethan Mollick turns Starship catch footage into interactive 3D web scene with one prompt

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