build an art project which is a fractal visulizer (mandelbrot, etc), but the styles look like handcrafted with paper, cardboard and such. Add post-procesing so it looks cinematic. Also want to use beautitful elaborated animations and transitions and a beautiful UX. Plan it first, show me a preview before coding everything
Make it yours. Change "a fractal visulizer (mandelbrot, etc)" to another kind of visualizer, and "handcrafted with paper, cardboard and such" to another material.
Paper-craft fractal browser
An interactive fractal browser (Mandelbrot and others) styled like handcrafted paper and cardboard, with cinematic post-processing and animated transitions. Claude Opus 5.5 built it as a Claude artifact; the creator posted a demo video.
“prompt is very raw, just playing with the concept...”
How it was made
The prompt asks Claude to plan first and show a preview before coding, so there were later turns that weren't published. The creator calls the prompt very raw, just playing with the concept.
Claude.ai · Claude Opus 5.5
Source and credit
X · Sep 23, 2026 · 1 likes · 69 views · 2 comments
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A fractal browser drawn as layered cut paper and cardboard: each colour band is a sheet with soft shadows, moving through Mandelbrot, Julia and Newton fractals at deep zoom.
- Color
- Kraft and corrugated cardboard browns, cream and white paper, orange and marigold sheets, deep maroon, and one navy Mandelbrot set.
- Type
- A rounded multicoloured Paper Fractal wordmark, handwritten-style captions on small white paper labels, and a pink depth and sheet counter in the top right.
- Framing
- Full-bleed 16:9 frames of the fractal with stacked paper edges for depth; captions sit lower left and the counter upper right.
- Structure
- Title over a cream and maroon spiral, a Mandelbrot bulb in orange paper, gold filigree spirals, a torn reveal from white to orange, Julia sets on white contour sheets, a navy Julia set, Newton's three basins on cardboard 775 million times deeper, and a closing title card reading WebGL2, no libraries, deep zoom by perturbation.
