40,000 years of art history in 15 seconds
Author’s claim: Claude Fable 5.5 · model not released · not verified by us
About the post
A 15-second dash across 40,000 years of art, with a cat subplot running alongside. The author says they simply asked for some art history.
Our summary. The author’s own words are in the post above; we do not copy them.
Our note
A person at a small table with a drink, a cat close by, is repainted in quick succession. Corner labels name each style: "40,000 BC" cave painting above a scrawled "Art History Speedrun", an Egyptian wall painting, "530 BC" Attic black-figure with Greek lettering, a Gothic illumination whose Latin text says the cat watches him, "1503" High Renaissance, a Ukiyo-e woodblock print with a great wave, "1889" Post-Impressionism, "1912" Cubism and "1993" ray-traced CGI. In the "2026" flat vector frame the cat paws at the cup, which ends up broken on the floor, while a corner signature beginning "Fable 5." is still being written. No prompt was shared.
Written by The Frontier Brief after watching the video (Nov 5, 2026). It describes what is on screen; we have not run the work ourselves.
Prompt
Not known. We have not found a prompt published by the author.
What we know
- Model
- Claude Fable 5.5 (author’s claim)
- Posted
- Oct 2, 2026
- Length
- 15s
- What we checked
- From the open awesome-fable5-5-videos list (MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 yihui-dev). On Oct 31, 2026 the post was still live on X; which model actually ran is the author’s claim.
- Longer write-up
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