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Fun new variant on my pelican riding a bicycle SVG benchmark by BeetleB, who instead used "Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle" to get ray-traced pelicans: blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/O...

9/11/25, 5:22 pm7 reposts103 likes

David Buchanan

@retr0.id

9 Nov 2025

next step, animated .blend file

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

9 Nov 2025

I couldn't resist recreating this using the new GPT-5 Codex Mini, which produced the worst ray-traced pelican on a bicycle yet! simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/9/p...

simonwillison.netPelican on a Bike—Raytracer Editionbeetle_b ran this prompt against a bunch of recent LLMs: Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle. This turns out to be a harder challenge …

MVB

@mvb.kirinok.osaka

9 Nov 2025

I tried this a while ago and they were all terrible at it (the results mostly didn't compile because it couldn't tell different versions of the syntax apart) There's an MCP to control Blender that also makes interesting results

mr. TIM

@timkellogg.me

9 Nov 2025

PelicanBench is getting saturated!

verdverm

@verdverm.com

10 Nov 2025

I suggest we expand the benchmarks by using pose estimation of actual pelicans riding bicycles blog.tensorflow.org/2020/05/pose...

blog.tensorflow.orgPose Animator - An open source tool to bring SVG characters to life in the browser via motion captureThe TensorFlow blog contains regular news from the TensorFlow team and the community, with articles on Python, TensorFlow.js, TF Lite, TFX, and more.