A holographic card, made by Haiku

Ann Nguyen’s holographic 3D card was made by Claude Haiku 5.5. The compliment is not that a frontier model can do shaders. It is that a cheap one works like a champ. Holographic card stock is a fussy little illusion: tilt, rainbow, a highlight that has to feel printed rather than stuck on.

Small models are usually asked for summaries. Asking one for a physical gag is a better test, because the failure is visible at a glance. If the sheen slides the wrong way, the card is a sticker. If it tracks the tilt, you forgive a lot of other roughness.

The post is a budget note as much as a demo. The effect did not have to be expensive to be worth tilting.