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I'm continuing to have a lot of fun with GPT-6 Astra and Blender (see my TIL ).
As a big fan of the Imperial Fabergé Easter eggs , I've always thought it would be fun to make some new ones that celebrate popular culture.
Yesterday I decided to try out the new ChatGPT Images 2.5 by running this prompt :
Generate a photo of a faberge egg that's themed after the TV show Pluribus - research first
It gave me this - honestly not bad for a first attempt!
Then, just to see what would happen, I pasted that image into Codex running GPT-6 Astra (high) and prompted:
Use your blender local skill to create a blender model of this faverge egg
(Here's the skill file , which I created like this .)
It churned away for 17m51s and built me several .blend files . I already had this vibe-coded Blender viewing experiment lying around, so I added that to my tools collection and now you can use it to see my Pluribus blender model in your browser :
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