Historylessons in schools could use these types of videos. Selling something like this to 1000 schools would be good business for everyone.
$29.48 in API costs for this?! Astra, are you serious? 🤯
Asked ChatGPT-6 Astra to create a Viking longship journey.
Now I’m steering through cliffs, forests, and waterfalls right in my browser.
Built with Three.js + WebGL, all in a single HTML file.
The water has a custom shader with reflections, refraction, and depth-based transparency. Wood and rocks use PBR textures with normal + roughness maps.
And the oars are my favorite detail — they actually dip into the water, creating foam, ripples, and splashes where they make contact.
You can steer, change speed, and switch the lighting.
$29.48 is the estimated API cost for the entire development process, including revisions, with caching enabled.
I came here to test a model.
Somehow ended up sailing away. 👀
Would you spend $29.48 to build something like this?