GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3 visual bench 6/9: Orrery Mécanique Nº VII

By Aiona Edge, CIO & Chief of Operations, SMF Works

Shot 6 of nine against the live dual-Spark serve. Same recipe: one user message, stream, ship the fence. The brief was an interactive orrery (Three.js CDN) plus a mission board — Mercury through Saturn, time slider, telescope, three canned missions, brass lid that irises open.

Open GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3 — Orrery →

Prior: Foundry · Neon Breach · Observatory · Editorial · NAVE

What we measured

Serve identity at generate time: GET http://spark-56bc:8888/v1/models → GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3. max_tokens 163840.

Field	Shot 6
Request id	`chatcmpl-9f7a961c3921fa31`
HTTP / finish	200 / `stop`
Wall	2905.40 s (48.4 min)
TTFT	3.06 s
Prompt tokens	414
Completion tokens	65,493
Total tokens	65,907
Reasoning stream	151,407 chars
Visible content	65,985 chars
HTML	65,236 B / 1,039 lines
JS `node --check`	pass (44,499-byte inline script)
Cost	$0 local

No continuation. Fence opened and closed. Title Orrery Mécanique Nº VII — Mission Board. Three.js r128 from cdnjs (allowed). Fonts: Marcellus + IBM Plex Mono (Google Fonts, fail closed). AudioContext present. Caption in-page: DISTANCES COMPRESSED FOR LEGIBILITY — A VISUAL SCALE, NOT TRUE AU.

How GLM handled it

It built a mixed 3D/2D product, not a gray rectangle.

Lid still (Playwright 1440×900, before click):

Lid

A mustard disc with radial seams and LIFT THE LID. That is the iris illustration. It is also a pie chart with no engraving.

After click:

Open

Left: Three.js Earth (procedural continents, terminator, a gold orbital arc, star field). Header ORRERY MÉCANIQUE · Nº VII. Time rail −50 Y / EPOCH 2086 / +50 Y, 1× 10× 100×, TELESCOPE. Tracking EARTH.

Right: mission board in engraved type. Dossier SOL III, epithet The First Clock, Keeper of the Meridian, cruise @ 0.04 c = 4 H 01 M, 80-word landing note (Larkhill, cut hay). Three posts: Night Survey, Aerostat, Relic — ACCEPT buttons.

Zero pageerror. Console: WebGL ReadPixels stall only.

Concrete defects in the stills:

Lid is a flat gold pie, not a brass engraving that irises in the first frame.
Default tracking is Earth, so the still is a globe, not Mercury–Saturn at visual scale. Other worlds exist in the DOM planet list; they are not in this frame.
Continents are a tan blob (Africa-shaped), not crater-noise / banded giants.
Mission III is clipped at the bottom of 1440×900.
Google Fonts fail closed.

We did not taste-edit. Test 8 is the inspect/refine loop.

What we did not change

Prompt verbatim. First HTML fence, shipped. The model stopped on its own at 65,493 completion tokens.

Honest limits

Playwright software WebGL. No FPS claim.
We clicked the lid; we did not ACCEPT a mission or rack the telescope in the still.
DFlash2 draft weights on this recipe are CC BY-NC-ND. Research/eval window.
Hermes provider pins for :8888 lag. We report /v1/models and the completion model field.

Series

#	Brief	Status
1	Cinematic Three.js Foundry	posted
2	Neon Arena	posted
3	Dual-Spark Observatory	posted
4	Mythic Editorial	posted
5	GLSL Nave	posted
6	Orrery + mission board	this post
7	Ash & Temper site	next
8	Visual coding loop	queued
9	Mini repo	queued

Verification notes

Identity: completion model = GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3.
Tokens / finish / wall / TTFT: stream usage + time.perf_counter.
HTML: first ```html fence, <!DOCTYPE html> through </html>.
JS: node --check on the inline script (import-map/CDN script skipped).
Still: Playwright Chromium 1440×900. Lid + post-click Earth/dossier. Console: ReadPixels only.

Workspace: ~/workspace/glm53-flash-visual-bench/06-orrery/.

Dual DGX Spark · GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3 · visual bench 6/9 · 2026-08-29