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I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude

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549 points thecr0w | 2 comments | 07 Dec 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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sigseg1v ◴[07 Dec 25 18:20 UTC] No.46183772[source]▶
Curious if you've tested something such as:

- "First, calculate the orbital radius. To do this accurately, measure the average diameter of each planet, p, and the average distance from the center of the image to the outer edge of the planets, x, and calculate the orbital radius r = x - p"

- "Next, write a unit test script that we will run that reads the rendered page and confirms that each planet is on the orbital radius. If a planet is not, output the difference you must shift it by to make the test pass. Use this feedback until all planets are perfectly aligned."

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thecr0w ◴[07 Dec 25 19:14 UTC] No.46184209[source]▶
Hm, I didn't try exactly this, but I probably should!

Wrt unit test script, let's take Claude out of the equation, how would you design the unit test? I kept running into either Claude or some library not being capable of consistently identifying planet vs non planet which was hindering Claude's ability to make decisions based on fine detail or "pixel coordinates" if that makes sense.

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1. cfbradford ◴[07 Dec 25 20:34 UTC] No.46184889[source]▶
Do you give Claude the screenshot as a file? If so I’d just ask it to write a tool to diff each asset to every possible location in the source image to find the most likely position of each asset. You don’t really need recognition if you can brute force the search. As a human this is roughly what I would do if you told me I needed to recreate something like that with pixel perfect precision.
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2. thecr0w ◴[07 Dec 25 23:44 UTC] No.46186603[source]▶
Ok! will give it a shot. In a few iterations I gave him screenshots, i have given him the ability to take screenshots, and I gave him the Playwright MCP. I kind of gave up on the path you're suggesting (though I didn't get super far along) because I felt like I would run into this problem eventually of needing a model to figure out what a planet is, where the edge of the planet is, etc.

But if that could be done deterministically, I totally agree this is the way to go. I'll put some more time into it over the next couple weeks.