Low-poly scenes trace humanity from Mesopotamia to thinking machines
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A two-minute animated history of humanity in low-poly 3D chapters, from an ox cart in Mesopotamia and a pagoda on the Silk Road to a lit skyscraper and a networked globe; the author says it took about an hour.
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Fable 5.5: a video about humanity, from ancient times to current It made all of those animtions and models in code, took it like an hour
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