All prompts › Simulations & physics
Earth to Mars and back: animated 3D plot (KCORES)
What it tests: A one-line prompt (from xAI's Grok 3 launch demo) that hides real orbital mechanics: transfer time, waiting for the return window, scale and 3D inclination.
Prompt length: 125 characters, roughly 30 tokens (estimate). · Scores for about 20 models in the source's rubric table ↗
Generate code for an animated 3d plot of a launch from earth landing on mars and then back to earth at the next launch window
The source has no licence that allows copying, so only a short excerpt is shown here. The full prompt is one click away at the source.
How to grade it
KCORES rubric (13 items, 65 points): Sun shown; Earth, Mars and the craft shown; both planets orbit; trails for all three; the craft reaches Mars on an elliptical transfer and returns on one; Earth at 1 AU and Mars at about 1.5 AU; transfer of about 259 days (within 10 % for full points); a wait at Mars of about 450 days before the return window; some inclination in z; an AU scale; a legend; smooth animation.
Scorecard tick what the model got right: 0/12
Runs in your browser; nothing is saved or sent.
Where models usually fail
The craft flies a straight line or returns immediately without waiting for the window; wrong Mars period; no Sun; static planets. In the KCORES table even strong models got the transfer or return timing wrong.
Running it
KCORES runs each model 3 times, keeps the best run and scores it visually at 2K full screen. Temperature 0 makes your own runs comparable.
Source
- Author
- karminski (KCORES team)
- From
- KCORES LLM Arena
- Exact file or post
- https://github.com/KCORES/kcores-llm-arena/blob/8f09c63e78189858377a760d03f69fb744b19aa2/benchmark-mars-mission/README.md
- Licence
- KCORES License 1.0 (custom: copies must carry the full licence text and public source)
- How we use it
- Excerpt only: open the full prompt at the source
Testing a local model? Check first whether it fits your hardware with Can I run this LLM?