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Someone built a walkable, physically accurate O'Neill cylinder with Claude

Original: I asked Claude build a physically accurate O'Neill cylinder you can walk around

A developer used the Claude AI assistant to build an interactive, physically accurate simulation of an O'Neill cylinder — a rotating space habitat concept first proposed by physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in the 1970s — that users can walk around in. The project is freely accessible online, letting people experience the habitat's interior, artificial gravity and Coriolis effects firsthand. It is drawing attention as an example of AI tools making complex physics visualizations accessible to anyone.

Why now: It showcases how AI coding assistants can now produce sophisticated, interactive physics simulations with a single prompt.

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