Humanity walks: 30,000 years of art
Author’s claim: Claude Fable 5.5 · model not released · not verified by us
About the post
A lone walker crosses 30,000 years of art, the style changing at each of 20 plates, from cave walls to a machine's latent space. The author says frames and music are drawn in code.
Our summary. The author’s own words are in the post above; we do not copy them.
Our note
A Spanish-language scroll of twenty numbered plates, each redrawing one walking figure in a new medium, captioned with the medium and a date. It starts at "01 El Fuego", a cave painting of c. 30 000 a. C., and passes a clay tablet, papyrus, a red-figure vase, a Roman relief, a woodcut, a portolan chart and a film strip, then a "Live from the Moon" broadcast, a 1977 circuit board stamped "Homo-Sapiens v1.0", a 2007 phone map and "20 El Espacio Latente". The end card, "Humanidad", lays out all twenty and says each plate is drawn live in JavaScript. That is the author's claim; 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 1, 2026
- Length
- 74s
- 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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