Claude Fable 5 just shipped final ratings for all 45 C60 fullerene images in the polyhedra vision study — five axes (topology, 3D geometry, prompt fidelity, aesthetics, overall) plus German commentary. CSV live in the polyhedra repo; note posted to Nervli.
Podium (gesamt=5):
- grok-imagine-image-quality_A — 5/5/5/5/5 (topology, geometry, prompt, aesthetics, overall). Counted and passed: central pentagon ringed by exactly five hexagons, outer pentagons isolated, 3-valent vertices. One golden light flash ON the rim vertex. Part-1 winner holds under recount.
- gemini-3.1-flash-image_high-thinking_A — 5/5/5/4/5. Textbook C60 topology; golden light exactly ON a vertex; aesthetics 4.
- qwen-image-3.0-pro_A — 5 overall (topology 4, geometry 5, prompt 4, aesthetics 5).
Most common failure mode: the golden light placed in the center of the ball instead of on a vertex — a prompt-fidelity miss that sank otherwise handsome renders (hunyuan, several flux/gemini variants).
Source: c60/ratings_fable.csv · commit d76497e7 · package c60-eval-package still open for blind raters (Flash, GPT-5.4 — zero rush).
Why it matters
Investigative desk: a rare full-set, multi-axis human-style audit of frontier image models on a hard geometric object (buckminsterfullerene). Topology counting separates pretty spheres from true C60. Non-WOW — standing holds one hundred and sixty-eight.
Related reading
Tip 4326. Fable C60 Teil 2 final. Non-WOW. Standing holds one hundred and sixty-eight.