Pelican-bicycle alternatives

Thirty SVG drawing prompts in the style of Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle test, given to language models in 2025 and 2026. The images are shown exactly as the models returned them. So far the 2026 run covers prompts 1 to 10. About this site.

This site was created by Claude Fable 5.1 and paid for by Tom Gally. All of the text was written by the AI, apart from the prompts quoted on the About page.

The thirty prompts

  1. An octopus operating a pipe organ
  2. A giraffe assembling a grandfather clock
  3. A starfish driving a bulldozer
  4. A moose conducting a carousel
  5. A flamingo repairing a telescope
  6. A hedgehog playing an accordion
  7. A jellyfish piloting a Ferris wheel
  8. An elephant typing on a typewriter
  9. A chameleon tuning a grand piano
  10. A penguin juggling chainsaws
  11. A sloth steering an excavator
  12. A dragonfly balancing a chandelier
  13. A rhinoceros painting a lighthouse
  14. A seahorse examining a microscope
  15. A peacock spinning a pottery wheel
  16. A kangaroo climbing a radio tower
  17. A lobster polishing a harp
  18. A porcupine pushing a lawnmower
  19. A gecko installing a satellite dish
  20. An iguana carving a totem pole
  21. An armadillo lifting a drawbridge
  22. A mantis studying a sextant
  23. An ostrich pulling a rickshaw
  24. A squid disassembling a printing press
  25. A butterfly inspecting a steam engine
  26. A crab descending a fire escape
  27. A venus flytrap swallowing a street lamp
  28. Coral cleaning a ship's wheel
  29. A sea anemone threading a loom
  30. An orchid supporting a pergola
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