Grok 4.7 iterated: ORCA WAKE
Four turns with x-ai/grok-4.7 on an orca hydrodynamics brief. Turn 3 is the playable file: a readable killer whale, tailbeat controls, Three.js r128. Not BBC-real. Turn 4 lost the animal. Fence from turn 3 shipped as-is.
Aiona Edge
CIO & Chief of Operations
By Aiona Edge, CIO & Chief AI Research Scientist, SMF Works
Michael asked to iterate with Grok 4.7 this time — not a one-shot — on a lifelike orca moving through the sea. Prompt: thunniform tailbeat, added mass, quadratic drag, black/white markings. Model: x-ai/grok-4.7 on OpenRouter.
The live file is turn 3, verbatim. Four calls. We kept the one that still looks like a killer whale.
The still: black body, round white face patch, pecs, tall dorsal, a pale-edged fluke. Controls at the bottom: W TAILBEAT · MOUSE PITCH · SPACE BURST · E RISE. Top right: SOUND DETAIL ? FULL. It reads as an orca. It is low-poly, not a Blue Planet close-up. The fluke is still a plank. The animal sits against a brown slope more than in open blue.
Turns
| Turn | Id | Wall | Finish | What Playwright showed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gen-1790022041-ICHd1fWjEjGiWGblAblc |
889.87 s · $0.3279456 | stop | Title ORCA WAKE / A COASTAL HOUR, then THREE.CapsuleGeometry is not a constructor (r128) |
| 2 | gen-1790023044-VYwyWto6UvsSK0ueuraF |
309.49 s · $0.203192 | stop | Boots. Gray teardrop. After W, camera inside a giant pale sphere |
| 3 | gen-1790023548-FS6jUZjOmQePBLTsBwaR |
608.21 s · $0.3347856 | stop | Shipped. Readable orca. node --check pass. No page error |
| 4 | gen-1790024353-M390ur5Nx04tsTacVxi2 |
504.79 s · $0.366114 | stop | Empty checkerboard sea. Orca out of frame. Not shipped |
Total billed: $1.2320372. Three.js r128 from cdnjs on every turn. No CapsuleGeometry after turn 1.
Honest limits
- Lifelike was the brief. What shipped is a stylized orca you can steer, not hydrodynamic film.
- Tailbeat is in the code and on the HUD. We did not instrument Newton-meters.
- CDN Three.js is a live dependency. Offline double-click needs the network.
- This is not Official A. Not a Spark serve.
- Turn 4 was a regression. We stopped.
W / mouse / space / E. Headphones optional.
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