# Paper Trebuchet — Sketch to simulation

A screen-captured interactive demo that turns a pencil sketch of a trebuchet into a 3D physics scene, tunes it with a hand-drawn overlay, then hands the controls to the viewer. The sketch is measured, built, thrown and finally played with live.

- Code: DM-0050
- Kind: Product demo
- Format: Screen recording demo
- Brand: Paper Trebuchet
- Length: 80.3s · 16 beats · 12 beats/min · 1 hard cut
- Industry: AI, Developer tools, Education
- Style: Light UI, Cinematic, Photoreal, No voiceover, Technical, Morph transitions, Slow and deliberate, Cursor-led
- Original: https://x.com/poolio/status/2102445641205248145
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/paper-trebuchet-sketch-to-simulation

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/paper-trebuchet-sketch-to-simulation.