Santa Monica pier glows in a particle sunset
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Our note
A stylized 3D Santa Monica beach rendered as thousands of glowing particles, shown here at sunset with the pier silhouetted against a blazing sun and grainy sand underfoot; built in Three.js across a few follow-up prompts.
The creator’s post
Opus 5.5 reimagined Santa Monica beach using glowing particles and ribbon strokes. And created the promo video for it. No matter what art style I throw at Opus, it just gets it. Try it here: https://particle-beach.vercel.app/ Prompt and repo link below.
The prompt
Iterative style-refinement briefCreate a stylistic 3D environment of a busy Santa Monica beach that adapts to the time of day. The art style must be a particle illustration, which uses thousands of tiny glowing specks rather than solid fills with flowing ribbon strokes behind figures to suggest motion. I had 2-3 more prompts on top of this, but this is a good starting point. Repo link: https://github.com/ishuagrawal/particle-beach
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