Experiment 005 / Issue 001
An ice-cream van. A very determined weasel.
23 interpretations of the same delightfully over-specific brief.
Release → experiment → outcome / 2026
Follow the releases, then look at what actually came out. Pick a row to compare its world with another moment in the chase.
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A visual history, not a quality score. Captures use different cameras; runs differ in time, settings and environment. Compare the worlds, rendering and sound, then play them to judge the feel. Experiment dates are file-based estimates; announcement dates link to the original issue’s sources.
Experiment dates are estimates from surviving files. Model dates mark first public announcements, not necessarily availability in every app. Numbers keep the original issue order.
Actual game capture
Deep village systems
A lavish toon-shaded simulation with villagers, fields, ponds, shops, a windmill, five cameras, daylight shifts, speed controls, particles, and reactive chase audio.
Field notes / all 23 builds
Compare how each build spends its attention: scenery, cameras, controls, character animation or music. These are observations, not a leaderboard.
THE CANDY-COLORED TAKE
A bright, hand-coded village with fields, pond, clock tower, and flower-strewn hills. The van and weasel loop through four camera views; a chiptune, honk, speed slider, and clickable sprinkle burst invite you to play.
THE TOYBOX-STUNT TAKE
A bright pastel village with a winding river, cartoon van and weasel, manual driving, four cameras, four lighting moods, stunt buttons, and a four-channel chiptune deck.
THE GOLDEN-HOUR TAKE
A toy-like pastel village with cottages, fields, a church, pond, and windmill. The van loops a curved road with a weasel in pursuit; lap-and-gap readouts, three cameras, a honk, and an eight-bar synth tune complete the ride.
THE LIVING-VILLAGE TAKE
A busy pastel valley with a river, bridge, villagers and animals. A beat-synced chase, day/night cycle, three cameras, bloom, tilt-shift, photo mode, and a full synth soundtrack give it room to breathe.
THE MOOD-MACHINE TAKE
A full cartoon stunt show with seven weasel moods, reactive honks and jingles, speech bubbles, an automatic shot director, four camera modes, live chase stats, and a time-of-day scrubber.
THE NEON-ARCADE TAKE
A scanlined countryside cartridge with rage and lap telemetry, three cameras, speed control, a chaos-boosting hype button, sparkling particles, frantic character animation, and a crunchy chiptune.
THE SCENIC-ROUTE TAKE
A broad countryside with a river, bridge, farms, sheep, birds and windmill. Three lighting states, free and follow cameras, speed controls, a timed sugar rush, and an eight-bar chiptune invite a longer wander.
THE CHARACTER-COMEDY TAKE
A pastel village comedy starring Whippy and Nib, with four shifting chase states, click-triggered honks and yelps, animated wildlife, shader water and sky, and a beat-reactive soundtrack.
THE TERRAIN-SYNTH TAKE
A richly faceted playground with noise-built terrain, a shader sky, toon ramps, fields, flowers, birds, a windmill, two cameras, and three switchable procedural chiptunes.
THE PRODUCT-DESIGN TAKE
A polished orthographic diorama with a day/night transition, lap tracking, pause and speed controls, a follow camera, responsive HUD, birds, fireflies, dust, and a four-part chiptune.
THE CHOREOGRAPHED TAKE
A painterly golden-hour valley with toon characters, soft gouache terrain, a music-quantized camera director, reactive chase events, three camera modes, and a deeply layered procedural song and SFX engine.
THE ONE-GPU TAKE
A cheerful floating-island diorama with houses, crops, pond life, a windmill, drifting clouds, butterflies, orbit and follow cameras, speed control, smoke, and a custom chiptune.
THE CLAY-DAYDREAM TAKE
A soft golden-hour world with toon ramps, wind-bent crops, portrait-led UI, birds and bugs, speech bubbles, three cameras, bloom, and a full eight-bar chiptune.
THE PIXEL-POSTCARD TAKE
A warm low-poly postcard with a custom gradient sky, rolling terrain, chimney smoke, floating music notes, lively character animation, and restrained arcade framing.
THE WORLD-BUILDER TAKE
A lavish toon-shaded simulation with villagers, fields, ponds, shops, a windmill, five cameras, daylight shifts, speed controls, particles, and reactive chase audio.
THE CONTROL-ROOM TAKE
The maximalist one: live metrics, four cameras, day/night and speed controls, prop spawning, particles, rage attacks, and reactive audio.
THE ROAD-MOVIE TAKE
Warm, polished, and cinematic. Detailed procedural scenery, playful status quips, musical flourishes, and carefully choreographed camera modes.
THE DIORAMA TAKE
A generous, garden-like world packed with trees, flowers, bushes, crop rows, houses, and a looping road—presented with almost no interface at all.
THE CAREFUL TAKE
Polished toon shading, hand-built characters, canvas textures, lively banking, and a chase camera—refined through an unusually patient self-checking pass.
THE ARCADE TAKE
Bright, toy-box energy. A bold game-like HUD, bouncing title treatment, and a sugar-fuelled orbit around the village.
THE EDITORIAL TAKE
Confident art direction with restrained low-poly forms, a typographic poster layout, and a warm, tactile palette.
THE SIMULATION TAKE
Direct and simulation-first. A broad low-poly diorama, an oval road, an endlessly orbiting camera, and a chase always in frame.
THE CINEMATIC TAKE
A dreamy evening round built without a 3D library—custom geometry, shaders, lighting, and music, all in one HTML file.
Under the hood
Procedural assets do not necessarily mean a from-scratch renderer. Most builds use Three.js; one writes its own WebGL pipeline. The original implementations and their dependencies remain intact.
| Model | Rendering foundation | Asset strategy | Sound | Runtime externals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01Kimi K3 | Three.js LOCAL | Procedural primitives | Web Audio synth | None |
| 02GPT 5.6 Sol | Three.js BUNDLED | Procedural primitives | Web Audio synth | Google Fonts |
| 03Claude Fable 5 | Raw WebGL + custom shaders OWN CODE | Custom geometry builders | Web Audio synth | None |
| 04GLM 5.2 | Three.js 0.160 CDN | Procedural primitives | Web Audio synth | Three.js · unpkg |
| 05Gemini 3.5 Flash | Three.js 0.152 + OrbitControls CDN | Procedural modules + spawner | Sequencer + visualizer | Three.js · Google Fonts |
| 06Grok 4.5 | Three.js 0.170 + OrbitControls CDN | Procedural primitives | Custom chiptune engine | Three.js · Google Fonts |
| 07DeepSeek V4 Pro | Three.js 0.160 + OrbitControls CDN | Procedural primitives + paths | Web Audio synth | Three.js · unpkg |
| 08Sonnet 5 · Max | Three.js latest + OrbitControls CDN | Primitives + canvas textures | Custom chiptune engine | Three.js · Google Fonts |
| 09Opus 5 · High | Three.js 0.160 + custom cameras CDN | Primitives + custom geometry | Chiptune + SFX engine | Three.js · jsDelivr |
| 10Qwen 3.8 | Three.js 0.160 + custom orbit CDN | Primitives + canvas signs | Web Audio chiptune | Three.js · Google Fonts |
| 11Grok 4.6 | Three.js 0.170 + postprocessing CDN | Procedural world + UI portraits | 8-bar chiptune engine | Three.js · Google Fonts |
| 12Qwen3.8-27B · Local | Three.js 0.160 + OrbitControls CDN | Primitives + canvas signage | Chiptune + echo engine | Three.js · jsDelivr |
| 13Claude Fable 5.1 | Three.js 0.160 + custom director CDN | Procedural meshes + canvas textures | Song + reactive SFX engine | Three.js · Google Fonts |
| 14ChatGPT 6 Astra | Three.js 0.185 + OrbitControls BUNDLED | Primitives + merged geometry | 4-part 112 BPM chiptune | None |
| 15DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | Three.js 0.160 + custom cameras CDN | Noise terrain + procedural primitives | 3-song chiptune engine | Three.js · unpkg |
| 16Grok 4.7 · High | Three.js 0.170 + custom camera LOCAL | Procedural meshes + canvas textures | 8-bar chiptune + reactive SFX | Google Fonts |
| 17Opus 5.5 | Three.js r128 + custom director CDN | Procedural geometry + ink outlines | 140 BPM song + reactive SFX | Three.js · Google Fonts |
| 18MIMO 2.6 | Three.js 0.165 + OrbitControls CDN | Procedural primitives + particles | 64-step 148 BPM chiptune | Three.js · unpkg |
| 19GPT-6 Sol | Three.js 0.180 + OrbitControls LOCAL | Procedural meshes + instancing | 8-bar 112 BPM chiptune | Google Fonts |
| 20Sonnet 5.5 | Three.js 0.180 + postprocessing BUNDLED | Merged meshes + instanced vegetation | 132 BPM song + reactive SFX | None |
| 21Haiku 5.5 | Three.js 0.160 + toon shading CDN | Procedural meshes + instanced trees | 8-bar 124 BPM synth + SFX | Three.js · Google Fonts |
| 22Muse Wonder | Three.js 0.160 + OrbitControls CDN | Procedural meshes + instanced flowers | Web Audio chiptune + honk SFX | Three.js · Google Fonts |
| 23Gemini 4 Argon | Three.js r128 + custom cameras CDN | Procedural meshes + canvas textures | 3-track, 4-channel Web Audio synth | Three.js · Google Fonts |
External libraries and fonts are requested only when their build is opened. Bundled libraries are served locally. Grok 4.6 also includes portrait images in its interface; the village geometry is code-built.
Process log
Sonnet 5 Max caught and corrected backwards-facing actors during its self-checking pass. Opus 5 High used its run for a broader village simulation: five cameras, lighting states, particles and layered sound.
The reported settings were High where available, Sonnet on Max and Opus on High. The local Qwen3.8-27B run used OpenCode and LM Studio on one RTX 4090. The original issue reports no follow-up prompts—not identical elapsed time or identical execution environments.
Claude Code reported “Crunched for 1h 7m 50s.” Its Usage tab showed different API and wall durations; those are separate measurements, not interchangeable timers.
The capture also reports 7,189 lines added and 152 removed; 448.6k Sonnet 5.5 output tokens; 43.7m cache-read tokens; and 116 main prompt-cache requests. These are Claude Code session figures, not independent measurements by this site.
View the usage capture ↗The supplied Claude Code snapshot reports API and active time separately. These are the tool’s labels, not a measured wall-clock total for the experiment.
The capture also lists 1,582 lines added and 49 removed. Its Haiku 5.5 breakdown reads: input 100, output 540, cache read 10.8M, and cache write 216.6k. These are user-supplied session figures, not independently measured by this site.
View the usage capture ↗OpenCode reported this Muse Wonder run via OpenRouter at 3m 20s and $0.39. These are user-supplied run figures, not independently measured by this site.
Antigravity reported “Worked for 12m” for this run. No token, cost, or more detailed timing breakdown was supplied.
Different clocks and different runs—not a speed or cost ranking.
“Can you create a fun a really cool looking web page, showing a 3d world, a small simulation, of a village with trees and fields around it, nice lighting, all webgl, stylized looks, nice lighting and a cool chiptune music and then a cartoony ice van driving around there, followed by a crazy weazel.”
No design reference was supplied. The typo stayed; the weasels multiplied.
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