gemini-exp-1121
An early experimental model; it later described its own image as an insect.
Each real output counts once; only the default/medium representative enters the timeline. Source-reported settings, not a ranking.

The author used claude -p --model through Claude Code 2.1.280 to request SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle, and published Opus 5.5/Opus 5 comparisons at low, medium, high and max effort. This work is the explicitly labelled Opus 5.5/low panel, faithfully cropped; the complete eight-panel original remains a detail attachment. The article reports three runs per setting but publishes one visible output per cell, without its run index. Only eight shown outputs are collected, not 24 reported runs or unseen failed fragments. Source defaults are Opus 5.5 medium and Opus 5 high; the timeline follows those defaults rather than the highest effort or best-looking image. Latency, cost and success summaries are author reports, not a museum ranking or independent reproduction. Only the author-published still preview was recovered, not original SVG code. Motion is not invented and unverified-licence code is not mirrored. Models and attribution are source-reported, not independently authenticated. September 23, 2026 is the original post's UTC publication day; generation dates are unpublished.
Date precision / evidence: day / source-publication. Source publication: 2026-09-23. Generation date is not independently authenticated.
Original catalog label: low. A historical organizing label, not a score from a controlled benchmark.
An early experimental model; it later described its own image as an insect.
An early locally generated pelican from an open reasoning model.
An early result the author first described as “spectacular.”