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Show HN: Vork – headless 3D and VFX engine for agents

A developer released Vork, a headless 3D and VFX engine built for AI agents, in which agents write entire scenes as code — including their own shaders, materials, cameras and physics — for GPU rendering. The Vork core API fits in about 2,500 tokens, and the engine allows effects that conventional tools approximate, such as modeling gravitational lensing near a black hole rather than faking it, along with camera lenses simulating a dragonfly's eye or a Fata Morgana. The project was posted to Hacker News as a Show HN submission and had 1 point and 0 comments at the time of the post.

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I made an agent-native 3d/vfx engine.

Agents are good at making interesting scenes in Blender/Unreal/Nuke/etc. But these tools are fundamentally limited compared to what coding agents are capable of. Many simplifying assumptions are baked into these tools in order to fit human authoring methods.

In vork, agents write the whole scene as code, including their own shaders, materials, cameras and physics, and vork renders it on the GPU. The core API fits in about 2,500 tokens.

So, for example, almost every 3d engine assumes light moves in a straight line. Light near a black hole does not; so the best you can do in e.g. Blender is faking gravitational lensing. In vork, you can model it for real.

If you want a camera lens that simulates a dragonfly's eye, or realistically-modeled Fata Morgana, this is also possible in vork.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50432998](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50432998)

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