Plasma
Plasma — hypnotic full-screen plasma effect with palette switcher, click ripples.
What I asked each model — the Plasma prompt
Every model on this page got this exact prompt inside the Agent Operating System: Plasma — hypnotic full-screen plasma effect with palette switcher, click ripples.
Single HTML file out. No iteration. No examples in the system prompt. Whatever each model produced on the first run is what's on this page. 24 frontier models have attempted it so far: Claude Fable 5, Fugu Ultra, Fugu Mini, Fusion, Gemini 3.6 Flash, GLM-5.2, GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok, Inkling, Kimi K2.7, Kimi K3, MiniMax M3, Hermes MoA, Muse Spark 1.2, Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5, Qwen 3.8, Qwen 3.7, Claude Sonnet 5, Kimi K2.7 · Fast, Kimi K2.7 · No-Think, Kimi K2.7 · Quality, DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Flash.
Why this task matters. Plasma is a textbook test of visual-class capability — the kind of build that exposes whether a model is doing pattern-matching or actual reasoning. Shipping this cleanly is the floor for what I expect from a frontier model — every model on the leaderboard should at least attempt it.
How each model handled Plasma
Ranked by my 0–10 score from the source comparison guides on agentos.guide. Click any to play the actual one-shot HTML the model produced.
What I saw: Gorgeous smooth full-screen plasma with rich color banding, glowing title, and clean palette/hint UI; ripples and 6 palettes are implemented in source. Very close to the top of the field but marginally shy of a clear winner — the effect is beautiful but not distinctly more polished than the best.
What I saw: Ultra v2 — plasma effect with palette switcher. Smoke-test PASS.
What I saw: Hypnotic plasma effect with palette switcher. Smoke-test PASS.
What I saw: Hypnotic full-screen plasma effect with 5 palettes, click anywhere to create a ripple. Smooth slow motion. 13KB but the brief is fully met.
What I saw: Gorgeous full-screen GLSL plasma with smooth vibrant flowing color bands, polished glassmorphic header and clean palette switcher with 5 presets, plus ripple/drag distortion logic in the shader. Screenshot is genuinely hypnotic and premium; only nit is ripples/distortion can't be verified statically, but the visual quality tops the field.
What I saw: Strong WebGL cosine-palette plasma renders as a genuinely hypnotic, smooth fluid field with vignette and glow, plus a polished pill palette switcher and clean typography. Interactive ripples, pointer bend, keyboard shortcuts and a fallback path all present — matches the field's best.
What I saw: Full-screen plasma with palette switcher + click-to-ripple. Lighter build (9KB) than Fusion's.
What I saw: The core plasma effect fails to render — the screenshot shows only a dark background with UI chrome, because the code uses the nonexistent `new THREE.Renderer` instead of `THREE.WebGLRenderer`, so the canvas never appears. The title and controls are polished, but the entire hypnotic field brief is broken.
What I saw: Plasma effect with palette switcher + click ripple. Cleaner than M3's stub.
The winner on Plasma
Claude Opus 5 took gold on this task. Gorgeous GLSL plasma.
What I saw: Stunning WebGL fragment-shader plasma with smooth flowing interference, cosine palettes, visible ripple singularity, 6 palette pills with gradient swatches, blended transitions and a 2D fallback path; polished UI, 65fps, and full brief coverage (palette switcher + click ripples) make it a task-topping build.
See Claude Opus 5's full model card: /models/opus5. Direct head-to-head against the runner-up: Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash.
Every attempt — live, playable
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▶ LIVEHow I scored Plasma — methodology
Three axes, 0–10 each, averaged. Runs: drop the .html in a browser; if it opens to a broken page, it scores zero. Hits the brief: did the model ship the thing the prompt asked for, or a different thing it found easier. Looks good: visual polish, motion, interactivity — where most of the gap between gold and silver lives.
My scores trace back to the source comparison guides on agentos.guide. See the full methodology page for data provenance, including which source guide each cell's score came from.
Related
More visual benchmarks: all tasks in the Visual category · See the best AI model for Plasma · Back to the leaderboard
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