Claude rebuilt SpaceX's Starship catch in 3D from the webcast alone — full prompts shared
emollick · x · 2026-11-16
Ethan Mollick prompted Claude to find footage of SpaceX's Starship Flight 15 catch and render the final 40 seconds in highly detailed three.js, with switchable cut-away blueprint views.
Key details:
- Claude cited its sources: SpaceX's official webcast replay (seconds 74-116 drove timing and camera shots), Wikipedia's Starship article for the layout, Guinness World Records for the 146 m tower, and community cut-away drawings
- Everything else (hull heights, tank sizes, pipe routing, catch rail height) was estimated — no SpaceX engineering drawings were used
- Full prompts are shared, making this a reproducible agent workflow for media-to-3D reconstruction
Related event: Prompt Alone Rebuilds Starship Catch as Interactive 3D(3 posts)→
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