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Revision 12 is text-led, with an opening fast-forward flutter, quiet music and selected sounds, without narration. This describes the sequence and editorial text; individual labels inside drawings and captured websites retain their source wording.

00:00 · Development splash

An original locally synthesized fast-forward flutter stops at the five-second title. Selected development excerpts from 30 saved clips, grouped into a five-second editorial time-lapse. Some source clips overlap; this is not elapsed production time.

00:05 · What software?

What software? Describe what you want to make. Let the agent work out how. An image. A website. Even this video. Made and refined through conversation with AI.

00:15 · Labelled pinhole camera

Help me explain a pinhole camera. Label it. Magnify the pinhole. The drawing moves from the construction towards the enlarged aperture.

00:31 · Create and edit the greenhouse

Create an image of a sunlit greenhouse. AI-generated starting image. Edit an image by describing the change. Add tomatoes. Remove all the people.

00:43 · Nova Scotian bees

Please create a web page about Nova Scotian Bees. Try a few directions. The page views approach the species artwork and real-photo comparisons.

00:56 · Breakout + Boids

Cross Breakout with flocking birds. Open the cage. Catch the flock. Actual local gameplay at 1.6× speed.

01:03 · The loom

Show me how this loom works. The view approaches the working loom and holds its overhead view for 2.5 seconds.

01:18 · Butterfly photograph and Blender construction

Bring my butterfly photograph to life. Start with my photograph. Build in Blender. Trace, separate, refine, surface, depth, detail, texture, colour, motion, photograph. The final view blends onto the unchanged photograph.

01:33 · Selected generated flight

A generated butterfly emerges from an anonymous generated hand-held print, approaches the lens and fills it with wing colour. The last ten frames dissolve to exact orange.

01:43 · This reel was created with OpenAI Codex

This reel was created with OpenAI Codex. Condensed production request: Create a portfolio reel from my projects and butterfly photograph. Choose the shots and timing. Add animation, music, captions and credits...

01:50 · Eight condensed requests

  1. Explain a pinhole camera.
  2. Create a greenhouse image.
  3. Add tomatoes.
  4. Remove all the people.
  5. Create a Nova Scotian bee website.
  6. Combine Breakout with flocking birds.
  7. Explain how this loom works.
  8. Animate my butterfly photograph.

02:02 · Closing words on orange

...and any of these things... can be generated as easily as asking. test.hensler.work/projects.html

02:08 · Real project tour

Actual public-site footage visits the project gallery, eagle-eye anatomy, Halloween Breakout + Boids, the loom and Nova Scotian bees. Each new project enters with a short diagonal slide-and-fade.

02:30 · Credits

The tools Codex put to work. OpenAI Codex; Blender; Anatomy by Ryan / wheresryan22; OpenAI image generation; Seedance 2.0 via Replicate; Python, Pillow, NumPy and FFmpeg. Monarch butterfly photography: Adrian Hensler. Full source and audio credits are linked separately.

Complete source credits.