Samizdat PublicationsThings I built to see if they could be built.

No. 016Simulations, v1.0, opened 09/12/2026

Antikythera Cosmos

A museum-style exhibit of the Antikythera mechanism: the 2021 reconstruction's 69 gears, 30 of them surviving, turning by one crank in your browser.

Built with Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5

1What is real

  • 1Reconstruction modelFreeth et al., Sci. Rep. 11:5821 (2021)CC BY 4.0
  • 2Fragment A CT scanAshkan PakzadCC BY 4.0
  • 3Moon faceNASA CGI Moon Kit (LROC)Public domain
  • 4HDRIs studio_small_09 and artist_workshopPoly HavenCC0
  • 5Ephemeris (astronomy-engine)Don CrossMIT
  • 6Layout referenceThomas WeibelCC BY
  • 7Narration voice David (Documentary)ElevenLabs library voiceElevenLabs terms
  • 8Parapegma and front dial inscriptionsBitsakis and Jones, Almagest 7.1 (2016)CC BY-NC 4.0
  • 9Eclipse canonFred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA's GSFC)Credit line: Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus (NASA's GSFC)

2How it was built

97 commits, counted from the repository history:

  • Fable 5.159
  • Opus 5.530
  • Opus 58

3Related files

Colophon

Each file here started as a question about whether something could be built: a mechanism, a plateau, an ecosystem, an orbit. They were built with Claude Code and kept with their sources, their status and the models that wrote them. Copy it, pass it on.