Short Film · Sep 22, 2026

Opus 5.5 built me a website that turns any photo into one-line art. It also films the line being drawn.

Opus 5.5 built me a website that turns any photo into… by oxmannnn, credited to Claude Opus 5.5. Watch the Short Film video and visit the original Reddit post.

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You drop in a photo and it gets redrawn as a single line that never lifts off the paper. There are four ways the line can go: **> Spiral:** the classic one. The line spirals out from the center and gets thicker where the photo is dark. **> Wander:** the line meanders all over the image and packs tighter in the shadows, kind of like TSP art. You tap where it should start and it never crosses itself. **> Contour:** traces the outlines of the face (or cat, or whatever) like those Picasso one-line drawings, and glides from shape to shape with thin connecting strokes. **> Maze:** when I first said "maze" I meant "goes in unexpected directions", it took me literally and built an actual labyrinth. It looked good so I kept it. **There are 11 tools:** pencil, pen, fountain ink, crayon, ballpoint, marker, brush, charcoal, chalk, neon, gold. **7 papers:** sketchbook, cream, watercolor, kraft, black card, chalkboard, blueprint. The paper is generated in code, and the grain looks the…
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