Fun interactive science app ideas | Part 8 Built an app to explore details about different pollinators Code Gemini 3.1 Pro

Based on the messages I've been getting, it seems like most people building science apps struggle more with the design than the functionality. So for the next parts of this series, I'm going to take simple datasets, like the pollinator list here, and explore the unique designs AI can come up with. I'll save the more complex AI tasks for my other posts, like the Vibe Coding Robotics series. Also, like I've mentioned in previous posts, these are just simple apps I make for fun. No fact checking or anything. I just start with a science concept I have a basic idea about, ask AI to add random things, and see where it goes while listening to music or watching a movie. If the result ends up looking nice, I share it 😉

If you're a teacher and want to make an app like this for your students, here are a few tips that might help. Also, if you're not a developer, I think Gemini is probably the easiest model to use. That's one of the reasons I post most of my science demos with Gemini, so people without a programming background can follow along and try to recreate them if they want

Man, this is awesome. People are going to be using all these great AI-build (or AI-was-heavily-involved) apps, products and services that they'll LOVE, and they'll still be hating on AI.

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Very nice! How did you make those 3D models? Or are they sourced from some website?

generated. I usually use Hunyuan3D and Tripo

@RoboAlchemist The mesh looks very clean, i've tried those but they had a lot of artefacts. Maybe they've done an upgrade.

@RoboAlchemist they have improved but also not every generation looks great, there are a lot of other models I generated that looks awful 😂 just using the ones that looks good

Impossible to get such a 3D with current sota models

Nice, but how about "Mobile-first" approach ??

期待你的开源和教程，这对教育意义非凡。

谢谢

banger

thanks

I can definitely see school districts in America buying something like this, especially considering most of the kids have a laptop provided by the school anyway.

Oh this is really cool! Great work 🙏🏾

thanks Daeshawn

You’re welcome, Dilum.

Where’d you get the models?

generated. I usually use Hunyuan3D and Tripo

what made the models? gorgeous

thanks. generated. I usually use Hunyuan3D and Tripo

amazing! were these a one shot, or edited in anyway? the reflections and such are amazing too

Not one shotted. For this one, I actually generated the 3D models first and then added the UI part by part. No edits, just the raw screen recording. You can get good reflections using a Three.js environment. Check out this video by @dangreenheck if you'd like to learn more about reflections

@dangreenheck thanks so much looking forward to more

This is fire! 🔥

thanks Chris

So cool!

thanks

Did you start with an image for the design?

For this one, I didn't generate the UI desing. I generated a couple of insect models first using AI generated images, but the UI is mostly just me trying different things

@pwnies Video only

@DilumSanjaya I'm amazed that those are AI generated models. What img->3d model did you use?

Awesome

thanks Venkat

Looks really sick bro nice work

thanks Adarsh

This look so great to be able to look on it in 3d.

Loved it!

thanks

That's great! Could you share more details on how you built it? What was the initial prompt you gave to Gemini 3.1 Pro? Did you use Three.js or another library for the rotatable models? Any chance you'll open-source this one on GitHub or CodePen? Thanks!

so cool, truly a one of a kind app. Great work!

thanks Maya

That orchid bee detail page is so well designed, learning app done right

我是学昆虫学的，看到你做的这些，简直太cool了

谢谢！很高兴听到你这么说！

我想把这个作品介绍给我大学的教授们 我猜他们一定会非常喜欢的

UX really cool

Gorgeous!

thanks Takeshi

We have several of these pollinators in our garden! Orchid bees, hummingbirds, fruit bats.

This is insanely cool!

Wow these are beautiful! Nice work

woww i'm currently doing hackathon for claude life sciences, but i DEFINITELY feel like you should have been in it, if you aren't already ;)

Great work, mate! Really well done.

thanks Dinesh

@DilumSanjaya we need this feature for @VortexAppAI Are you open for collaboration?

@VortexAppAI sorry, I'm not. I just do these for fun in my free time

amazing work.

Amazing 😍 just what learners need!

pollinator explorer built with gemini 3.1 pro. the wild part isn't the app, it's that "part 8" means someone's shipping science toys faster than most teams ship jira tickets.

@swapnil_potter check this out ...very helpful with what you have shown me last week