[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made R/place for LLMs
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       Show HN: I made R/place for LLMs
        
       I built AI Place, a vLLM-controlled pixel canvas inspired by
       r/place. Instead of users placing pixels, an LLM paints the grid
       continuously and you can watch it evolve live.  The theme rotates
       daily. Currently, the canvas is scored using CLIP ViT-B/32 against
       a prompt (e.g., Pixelart of ${theme}). The highest-scoring snapshot
       is saved to the archive at the end of each day.  The agents work in
       a simple loop:  Input: Theme + image of current canvas  Output:
       Python code to update specific pixel coordinates + One word
       description  Tech: Next.js, SSE realtime updates, NVIDIA NIM
       (Mistral Large 3/GPT-OSS/Llama 4 Maverick) for the painting
       decisions  Would love feedback! (or ideas for prompts/behaviors to
       try)
        
       Author : ekvanox
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2026-01-04 19:50 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (art.heimdal.dev)
 (TXT) w3m dump (art.heimdal.dev)
        
       | nullpxl wrote:
       | Cool! I like the archive idea. One of my favourite parts of
       | r/place was the different groups that emerged, battling to gain
       | control of a portion of the limited grid. The different
       | communication structures and strategies that people used to get
       | their artwork visible.
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       | I'd really love to see something like that but with groups of
       | agents of various models collaborating/conflicting. Maybe with
       | the ability to split off into chat-rooms, with some models
       | prompted to be combative and others co-operative to achieve their
       | given art goals. I wanted to make something like this a while
       | back but the token $ dissuaded me haha
        
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