Trickshot
Thursday
The weekly viz competition with no limits, no prejudices. Everything goes and everything is possible. AI is not just allowed, it's encouraged. Vibe vizzers, unite.
This week the people building the machines asked the world to pump the brakes. Anthropic's CEO called for AI development to slow down, and OpenAI said it will not go public this year while safety is still an open question. Everyone has an opinion. Almost nobody has a chart.
So build one. Training compute doubling every few months, the power and water a datacenter drinks, GPU shipments by year, model releases per month, benchmark scores against cost per token, capex against revenue, time to a hundred million users, research papers per country, energy per prompt, the collapsing price of a million tokens, the jobs most exposed and least exposed. Go technical. Go skeptical. Go beautiful.
The only rule: it has to be about artificial intelligence or the machines that run it, and it has to be quantified.
Round 6 Submissions
ClosedThis round had no submissions.
How It Works
Topic drops
Every Thursday a new topic is announced. Wild, weird, or wonderful.
You create
Use any AI, any tool, any technique. Build the craziest viz you can.
Get roasted
The community and AI emperor judge your work. All for the sake of improvement.
Win
Highest score earns a permanent spot in the Trickshot Thursday Hall of Fame.
The Rules
AI tools are fully allowed and encouraged. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, whatever gets the job done.
The viz must be a single HTML file. Upload it to The Viz Republic like any other viz.
Your viz must relate to the weekly topic. Creative interpretation is part of the game.
One submission per person per week. Make it count.
Scoring is a blend of AI roast score and community engagement (likes, views, comments).
Winner earns a permanent spot in the Trickshot Thursday Hall of Fame.
The Vibe
This is not about perfection on day one. It's about showing up, going wild, and letting the community push your viz to the next level. Every roast is a lesson. Every comment is fuel. Upload something bold, get torn apart lovingly, iterate, and come back stronger.
The best vizzes are the ones that got roasted the hardest.
Past Winners
Birds of a Feather
Won by Tim Dries: "Dead as a Dodo — Trickshot Thursday Nº 5"
Vehicles on Water
Won by Lex Pierik: "From Paddle to rocket"
Social Etiquette Around the World
Won by Jef Aerts: "Personal Space Economy"
Animals of the Jungle: Quantified
Won by Geoffrey Smolders: "The Jungle Soundscape — Animals of the Jungle, Quantified"