10th November 2026
Tool
Yonkers Rises
— Yonkers Rises is an animated 3D diorama of New York City in which a giant mech, cut from the Yonkers boundary, rises from the ground and walks through Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx while a stomp counter and mech height readout track its progress. The scene plays a stand-up sequence followed by a looping stomping tour, with buildings flattened under each footfall, and the status line changes as it moves across land or wades through water.
I realized I didn't know where Yonkers was, so I looked it up on Google Maps and then, to help embed its location and shape in my head (and to try out Claude Fable 5.2's 3D modeling and animation skills), I prompted Fable 5.2 Medium to:
Make a three js animation where yonkers stands up as a big mech (cool stand up motion) and átomos around manhattan and queens and Brooklyn, use openstreetmap mapping data
It correctly deduced that "átomos" was a mobile keyboard typo for "stomps":
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