Fluid simulation · claude-opus-4.8
Create a real-time fluid simulation on a full-screen canvas where dragging the mouse pushes swirling colored dye through the fluid.
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Create a real-time fluid simulation on a full-screen canvas where dragging the mouse pushes swirling colored dye through the fluid.
thinking
I'm building a fluid simulation using a grid-based Navier-Stokes solver that renders to canvas, keeping the resolution moderate for performance. I'll create a self-contained HTML file with the complete implementation.
/workspace/index.html (9898 bytes)Successfully wrote 9898 bytes to /workspace/index.html
thinking
Let me verify the canvas setup is working correctly—it's N×N pixels scaled to fill the screen via CSS—and run through the render loop to make sure there are no errors.
The simulation is a real-time Navier-Stokes fluid solver (Jos Stam's stable fluids method) rendered to a full-screen canvas. Let me verify it's syntactically valid:
{"command":"cd /workspace && node -e \"const fs=require('fs');const h=fs.readFileSync('index.html','utf8');const m=h.match(/<script>([\\s\\SJS parses OK
`index.html` is written and ready. Open it in a browser and drag the mouse to push swirling colored dye through the fluid. What it does: - **Full-screen canvas** — a low-res simulation grid (160×160) stretched to fill the window via CSS for smooth performance. - **Real fluid dynamics** — implements Jos Stam's *Stable Fluids* method: velocity advection, diffusion (viscosity), and a Gauss-Seidel pressure-projection step to keep the flow incompressible, producing realistic swirls and vortices. - **Dragging pushes dye** — mouse/touch motion injects both velocity (force in the drag direction) and colored dye into the fluid. The dye is carried by the velocity field, so it swirls and mixes. - **Cycling colors** — the injected hue rotates continuously, so sustained dragging paints a rainbow trail. - **Tone-mapped rendering** with gentle fading so the dye slowly dissipates. Everything is inline in the single self-contained `index.html` with no external resources.
TAKE IT TO CODE
A single self-contained HTML file — copy it and open in any browser, or reuse the prompt with your own pi-agent run.
RUN
EVALUATION
Drag creates a thin pink dye trail, but click/wheel/keys do nothing and fluid lacks swirling detail or richness.
Vision grade · anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
MEASUREMENTS
Raw readings from the capture, not a verdict — the grade above is the only judgement. Percentages are how much of the screen changed; the measure under-reports sparse motion on a dark background.