
Shopify Editions, rebuilt
Rebuild Shopify's Winter '26 Editions page pixel for pixel, motion included, making every image and 3D model from scratch.
- Fable 5.2
- Opus 5.5
- Fable 5.1
- GPT-6 Astra
- Gemini 4 Argon
Built by Pat
I test AI models by building things. Open each model’s version, copy the exact prompt, or watch the test.
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Rebuild Shopify's Winter '26 Editions page pixel for pixel, motion included, making every image and 3D model from scratch.

Model the new Tesla Roadster in Blender from scratch and put it in a 3D viewer you can spin, fly and drive.

A photoreal 3D cold brew bottle you can orbit, open and pour, built from a fictional coffee brand's kit.

A real-time 3D simulation in the browser of the full mission, from liftoff and hot staging to the booster flying back and being caught by the launch tower's arms.

A rebuild of butter.video, the same site for every model, with its 3D keychain modelled in Blender and nothing taken from the original.

A Blender test using the adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3, with a product page for each model's shoe.

I gave GPT-6 Astra control of Blender, the free 3D modelling software, and asked it to build three things: a flythrough of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, the room I am sitting in right now, and a 3D model of the NEO humanoid robot embedded in a web page. You do not need to know how to code or anything about Blender to do this. Neither do I. The setup takes five minutes; the three builds took 54 hours of unattended compute and $1,771.61 in tokens. Below are the prompts, the results, and everything that broke.

From “I Gave GPT 6 Astra Blender Access (The Results Are INSANE)”

From “I Gave GPT 6 Astra Blender Access (The Results Are INSANE)”

Two attempts to recreate D-Day at Omaha Beach in 3D, with a timeline for watching the battle unfold.

A 3D walking-machine test based on Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, with adjustable legs, gravity and ground friction.

A real-time, interactive 3D place of their choosing — something you're inside of, not an object in a void.

A real-time, interactive 3D scene of their choosing.

A real-time ocean + whirlpool (Charybdis) from the Odyssey, everything drawn in code.

This build is a physically simulated 3D scene in raw WebGPU, built from nothing with no imported models or textures. Everything is drawn in code.

From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”

From “Kimi K3 Is Here! (Better Than Opus 4.8?)”

From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”

From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”

From “GPT 5.6 Sol: No-Hype Full Review & Testing”

Pat Simmons gave AI models the same builds, three to five at a time, and logged every run's cost, tokens and minutes. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash cost as little as $1.00 a build and Fable 5.1 as much as $592.37, and the two cheapest models placed low in the blind rankings. The page also lists every model's API price and the main plans, checked November 10, 2026.

Fable 5.2 costs twice as much per token as Opus 5.5. We gave both the same email thread, 48-page report, messy contact list, slide deck and small build. Three jobs were a tie, Fable won two on details, and it cost about twice as much to get there.

ChatGPT is OpenAI's all-in-one app, free or from $8 a month, with GPT-6 Astra on Plus and Pro. Qwen is Alibaba's free assistant and a family of open models you can download. Plans, sizes, licenses and Alibaba's own scores, from each company's pages.

I put Google's new frontier model through four hard builds against Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra.

Turns a plain-English video idea into a ready-to-paste prompt for the Seedance 2.0 video model.

Lets Claude Code build and play 3D cities in Unreal Engine 5.8 through the official Unreal MCP plugin.
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