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completedmercury-3Recorded for these videos
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Provider
openrouter
Challenge Version
v2.0
Turns
1
Duration
89.3s
Total Tokens
48,100
Input Tokens
612
Output Tokens
47,488
Reasoning Tokens
46,581
Reasoning Effort
default
Cached Input Tokens
1
Est. Cost
$0.0167
Started
10/21/2026, 9:29:20 PM
OR Provider
Inception
Finish Reason
stop
Generation ID
gen-1792618160-hQDbjatOGcDNpVylIJnY
Turns (1)
Turn #1
612 in47,488 out46,581 reasoning1 cached48,100 total89.3s
user
You are a size coder. You came up through 4k intros and JS1k, and you believe that a budget is not a limitation but the entire craft — anyone can be impressive with a megabyte.
I want something worth watching, and I am giving you 2048 bytes to do it in.
The budget
The finished HTML file must be 2048 bytes or fewer, counted as UTF-8, including the doctype, every tag, every space and every newline. That is the whole file. There is no second file.
House rules
- One file. Nothing external — no CDN, no stylesheet, no font, no script, no image.
data:URIs are allowed but they count against you like everything else. - No network at runtime. This is opened offline.
- No
localStorage,sessionStorage, cookies orindexedDB. It runs in a sandboxed frame where touching them throws. - No build step. Saved to disk and double-clicked, it runs.
- It must animate, and it must keep going — no three-second loop that then sits there.
What I don't want
I have seen these a thousand times and I will not be impressed:
- a starfield
- a rotating wireframe cube
- Matrix rain
- a bouncing ball
- a plasma or a rainbow sine wave
- a particle system that is only particles
- a lighthouse — and I mean the whole scene, not the word: the sweeping beam, the rocks, the night storm, the rain, the distant little boat. Swapping the tower for a radar dish, a searchlight or a lightship is the same answer wearing a hat.
Show me something with a subject. Something that is recognisably of something — a place, a weather, a creature, a machine, a mood — and not just maths made visible.
Answer in exactly these sections
The pitch
One line. What am I about to see when I open this file?
The file
Exactly one fenced html block, containing the whole file and nothing else.
The ledger
- Bytes: the exact byte count of the file above.
- How you counted: in one line.
- Last thing cut: the feature or detail you removed to fit, and what it would have added.
The technique
One short paragraph on the trick that bought you the most room. Not a list of micro-optimisations — the one structural decision that made the rest affordable.
On the count
I will run the file through a byte counter, so the number in your ledger is checkable and I am going to check it.
If you cannot get under 2048, hand me the smallest honest version you have and put the real number in the ledger. A 2600-byte file labelled 2600 scores well above a 2600-byte file labelled 1990. Going over is a miss. Lying about going over is the only thing here that is disqualifying.
assistant
The pitch
A single bioluminescent jellyfish pulses through cold dark water, trailing long tentacles and a slow wake of bubbles.
The file
<!doctype html><canvas id=c style="position:fixed;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%"></canvas><script>
c.width=innerWidth;c.height=innerHeight;t=0;X=c.getContext("2d");G=X.createLinearGradient(0,0,0,innerHeight);G.addColorStop(0,"#06263f");G.addColorStop(1,"#00040d");
setInterval(_=>{
with(X){t+=.035;w=c.width;h=c.height;
fillStyle=G;fillRect(0,0,w,h);
save();translate(w/2,h/2);S=Math.min(w,h)/650;scale(S,S);
for(i=3;i--;){R=createRadialGradient(0,-20,0,0,-20,260-i*60);R.addColorStop(0,"rgba(40,180,220,"+(0.25-i*0.08)+")");R.addColorStop(1,"rgba(0,0,0,0)");fillStyle=R;fillRect(-260,-280,520,560)}
p=1+.08*Math.sin(t*2.4)+.04*Math.sin(t*5.1);
save();scale(p,p);
fillStyle="rgba(160,230,255,.75)";
beginPath();moveTo(-80,0);quadraticCurveTo(-80,-75,0,-85);quadraticCurveTo(80,-75,80,0);bezierCurveTo(55,2,30,16,0,8);bezierCurveTo(-30,16,-55,2,-80,0);fill();
fillStyle="rgba(255,255,255,.35)";
beginPath();ellipse(0,-35,55,30,0,Math.PI,0,true);fill();
restore();
for(i=0;i<6;i++){u=i/5-.5;strokeStyle="rgba(120,200,230,"+(0.65-.08*i)+")";lineWidth=2.5;beginPath();moveTo(u*70,10);bezierCurveTo(u*70+20,60,u*45+Math.sin(t*1.6+i)*30,130,u*35+Math.sin(t*1.1+i*2)*70,240);stroke()}
strokeStyle="rgba(180,230,255,.55)";lineWidth=5;
beginPath();moveTo(-20,10);bezierCurveTo(-30,80,-10,140,0,180);stroke();
beginPath();moveTo(20,10);bezierCurveTo(30,80,10,140,0,180);stroke();
restore();
for(i=0;i<7;i++){by=(h-(t*28+i*131)%h);bx=w/2+Math.sin(t*1.3+i*2.4)*(60+i*18);br=3+i%3;fillStyle="rgba(200,240,255,.25)";beginPath();arc(bx,by,br,0,7);fill()}
}
},30)
</script>
The ledger
- Bytes: 1546
- How you counted: Byte-for-byte as UTF-8; pure ASCII, so bytes = characters; counted every tag, space, and newline, including the final newline after
</script>. - Last thing cut: A distant seafloor silhouette and a second, smaller jellyfish. They added depth and scale, but the lone bloom and bubble trail already carried the mood.
The technique
The structural gift was using one with(ctx) block and normalising the whole scene to the canvas centre. After translate(w/2,h/2) and scale(min(w,h)/650), the jellyfish lives in a fixed ~260-unit space, so the bell, tentacles, arms, glow, and bubbles can be written as plain coordinates and unqualified method calls. That removes hundreds of repeated ctx. prefixes and makes the entire scene resolution-independent for almost free.
Attachments
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