Demo

Stillwet — Claude Paints in Oil, Live

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Oct 2, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 picks a subject, writes every brushstroke as code, and a physics simulation of oil paint executes them in real time — no image generator involved. You watch a full landscape materialize stroke by stroke, then replay it sped up. The current painting on screen is a moody Caspar David Friedrich-style meadow with distant church spires. A live ticker shows what the model is painting right now. A gallery of 75 finished works is browsable, each with its own replay.

Claude writes brushstroke commands as code; a real oil-paint simulation carries them out — zero diffusion model involved
Live feed shows the model mid-session, naming its subject and sitting number in real time
75 completed paintings in the gallery, each replayable as a sped-up time-lapse