[twiss]

I think it's interesting to consider how humans would go about this task ("Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"), and how well they would do if they had to output the SVG into a text box without any other tools. Considering that, I think Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o did incredibly well, and even the others might be commended for making a valid SVG at all..

[nemomarx]

depends on the human, right? I imagine an artist who specializes in SVG would do pretty well and might make it a professional logo?

[egypturnash]

Pro artist who specializes in vector work here: I would use Adobe Illustrator to draw it, while looking at actual photos of pelicans and bicycles, and export an SVG. If it needed to have a lot of named parts I could make that happen.

If I had the latest version of Illustrator then I would consider seeing how well its image generation does, but I do not because it has a lot of exciting new bugs that break my normal workflow. I believe that under the hood that works by feeding your text prompt to a bitmap image generator and running the same old autotrace on it, which results in some pretty messy and hard-to-edit shapes.