GPT-5.6 Animation Tests Show Mixed Results
minchoi · x · 2026-07-11
The referenced test compares the performance of GPT-5.6 and GPT-5.5 across four types of canvas animation prompts:
- For the Mac 'hello' handwriting font, Sol Ultra is essentially on par with 5.5, while Luna Max performs worse.
- For the 'fireball into water' and 'burning wet paper' prompts, GPT-5.5 actually performs better, rendering more realistic steam, bubbles, and burning edges.
- For reproducing the ChatGPT App UI, GPT-5.6 takes the lead; all three variants successfully followed the multi-step process and achieved character-by-character streaming output, whereas 5.5 skipped the streaming entirely.
Overall conclusion: GPT-5.6 excels at certain interactive and process-control tasks, but doesn't necessarily outperform GPT-5.5 in rendering specific physical effects.
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