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

No. 014Simulations, v1.0, opened 09/08/2026

Lukewarm Wheels

A physics simulation of the classic, less-than-hot die-cast tracks of the '90s: every loop, jump and crash worked out, not scripted.

Built with Opus 5.5, Opus 5

1What is real

  • 13D renderingthree.jsMIT
  • 2Free-body crash physicsRapierApache-2.0
  • 3Some sound effectsGenerated with ElevenLabsGenerated for this project
  • 4Car colours, tampos and wheelsHot Wheels collectors' wiki (reference only)Reference only; Hot Wheels is a Mattel trademark, this project is an unaffiliated parody

2How it was built

71 commits, counted from the repository history:

  • Opus 5.537
  • Opus 528
  • Fable 5.16

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.