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Then a design showcase site, total creative freedom, meant to show off peak taste. Both models, given a blank canvas, independently reached for the deep ocean. GLM made NOCTILUCA, a bioluminescence field study; Kimi made ABYSSAL, a vertical survey of the deep. Here is the prompt:

  • GLM 5.2
  • Kimi K3

The prompt

# Lightning Round — Test 2: Design Showcase Website

Blind side-by-side. Same prompt to both models. Judged on: design taste, artistic
flavor, and technical execution.

**Tooling note:** both models get access to **GPT Image Gen** for generating image
assets. No Pinterest, no stock sites, no other image sources, no animation services.

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Build **one website** as a demonstration of your absolute peak capability in web
design, taste, and artistic flavor. This is a showcase piece — it will be seen by a lot
of people, and it should show the world what you're capable of. Go nuts.

You have **total creative freedom over the subject and direction** of the site. Choose
something that gives you room to show off. Commit hard to a single strong artistic
point of view rather than hedging between styles.

## What the site must demonstrate
Use a mixture of advanced visual techniques — not all of them, but enough to prove
range:
- **High-quality 3D** work (WebGL/Three.js) that's genuinely well-crafted, not a
  spinning-cube demo.
- **Otherworldly, beautiful animation** — considered motion design, choreographed
  entrances, scroll-linked or time-based sequences, real easing.
- **An exceptional color palette** — specific and confident, not a default gradient.
- **Novel, interesting typography** — an actual type point of view, expressive scale and
  pairing.
- Anything else you believe best illustrates your skill.

## Image assets
Generate images with **GPT Image Gen** and use them as key assets in the design.

**Generate at most FIVE images.** This is a hard limit. Art-direct them deliberately —
every image has to earn its place, and the set should feel like one visual system, not a
pile of unrelated generations. Plan what you need before you start generating.

- Sizes: `1536x1024` (landscape 3:2) or `1024x1024` (square).
- Write all generations into an `./assets/` folder next to the site and reference them
  with relative paths.
- Write image prompts that are art-directed and specific (subject, lighting, medium,
  palette, mood) so the set holds together as one visual system.

## Iteration (required)
Before you consider the site finished, do **at least three iteration passes**. An
iteration pass means: after completing the site, go through it with a fine-toothed
comb, looking for design problems, weak spots, and opportunities to improve and
complexify the design. Then act on what you find. Do not skip this — the iteration is
where the quality comes from.

## Deliverable
A complete, directly runnable site. Fully responsive, no broken interactions, no
placeholders, no console errors. Work autonomously and don't ask for input until it's
finished.

The exact prompt from the published test.

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