One ice cube melting: keep the shrinking solid and growing puddle together

Original video brief; method not independently tested. No input image or generated result is supplied.

1. Task and source boundary

Plan a close view of one ice cube partly melting on a level dish. The useful action is a visible change in two linked features: the remaining solid becomes smaller and rounder while water gathers around its base. Keep some ice at the end so the viewer can inspect the solid and liquid together.

This is an authored visual brief, not a recorded experiment or a claim about MiniMax H3's physical accuracy. The time-lapse treatment, viewing angle and stopping point below are author suggestions. The scope is one cube undergoing partial melting. Exclude boiling, freezing, cracking into separate cubes, a liquid poured from outside the frame, and a complete disappearance followed by a replacement object.

2. Prepare a readable input

Use a photograph or accurate drawing you own or have permission to use. Show one unwrapped ice cube resting on a shallow, level, nonabsorbent dish. Begin with a nearly dry surface or a small visible wet area around the base; describe whichever your image actually shows. Use a plain contrasting dish, stable side light and a slightly elevated side view that separates the cube's upper outline from the water boundary. Keep the whole dish in view, with generous room around the cube for the puddle.

Choose a starting cube with a readable outline rather than an almost invisible clear shape. Avoid patterned reflections, overlapping ice, hands, straws and a deep bowl rim hiding the base. The dish edge and an existing small surface detail can anchor the shot. Do not add a ruler or temperature display unless the input genuinely contains one; the review below needs no measurement overlay.

3. Use the prompt in the current generator

Open the current image-to-video generator. Use this draft with a mode that accepts your image as a starting frame, adapting the wet-area description to match it. Review the available controls, prompt and cost estimate before submitting. This page supplies text only and does not upload an image or start a generation. The suggested pacing describes the desired clip, not a required duration setting or a claim about how quickly real ice melts.

4. Complete prompt and sequence

Start from my authorized image of one ice cube resting on a level shallow dish, with only a small wet area at its base. Make one continuous locked-camera time-lapse view. Keep the same dish, its edge, background, exposure and light direction fixed. Briefly establish the cube, then show partial melting: its upper corners gradually round, its visible height and solid outline gradually decrease, and a connected shallow water area develops outward from the same base. Keep a clearly visible smaller piece of solid ice at the end, sitting in its own puddle. Preserve continuity between intermediate shapes; do not dissolve the cube with an opacity fade, shrink an unchanged cube like a scaled graphic, split it into extra pieces or exchange it for a different object. Let the wet boundary change gradually across the dish, without a separate water source, sudden flood, boiling, steam or reversed freezing. Keep the cube's base in the same local area; do not make it travel across the dish. The water and remaining ice stay within the dish. End on the coexistence of a rounded ice remnant and its surrounding puddle. No cut, camera move, hand, text, temperature label or claimed measurement. The compressed passage of time is a visual treatment, not a real-time melting rate.

1. Opening, roughly the first fifth: establish one cube, its contact area and the original wet boundary. Keep the camera still.
2. Middle, roughly the next three fifths: show several connected intermediate outlines. Follow both the receding solid edge and the spreading wet edge; do not replace the sequence with a crossfade between two stills.
3. Ending, roughly the last fifth: retain a substantial visible remnant and surrounding water. A short closing view makes those two features readable. Do not imply the real melting process has stopped.

These proportions are editing suggestions. Adapt them to the clip length actually available rather than treating them as model timing guarantees.

5. Inspect an actual output

After generating your own clip, record the time or frame, visible observation, and pass, fail or inconclusive result for each condition. Reflections can resemble a water edge, so inspect more than the final frame.

• One continuous solid remains identifiable as the original cube; no extra cube, substituted object or unexplained fracture appears.
• Several intermediate frames show changes in the solid's silhouette and rounded corners, not only fading transparency or identical-shape scaling.
• The wet area remains connected to the cube's base while its visible boundary develops across the dish; no unrelated puddle suddenly appears elsewhere.
• A smaller solid remnant and surrounding water are both visible at the end. The ending does not require guessing whether all the ice vanished.
• The dish and background anchors remain fixed, and apparent shrinkage does not come from a zoom or a moving camera.
• The view supports a visual partial-melting judgment only. If glare hides the solid edge or puddle boundary, mark that relation inconclusive.

6. Repair one failure at a time

• The cube fades like a ghost: replace “disappear” or “dissolve away” with “retain an opaque-edged solid remnant with a changing outline,” and keep the final remnant larger.
• The cube shrinks without changing shape: emphasize gradual corner rounding and compare intermediate silhouettes against the dish detail.
• Water arrives from nowhere: remove splash or pour language; connect the growing wet area to the original base throughout the shot.
• A reflection is mistaken for the puddle: use a plainer dish and softer side light in your authorized input. More prompt adjectives cannot reveal a hidden boundary.
• The entire dish fills instantly: shorten the requested transformation to a modest partial melt and keep the remnant visible.
• The cube slides or changes identity: reduce surrounding motion and retain the same local base region; check intermediate frames before accepting the ending.

7. Ending, saved result and limits

End with the same dish, one smaller rounded ice remnant and a connected puddle around it. Save your own output using the result controls available in the generator, together with the input, exact prompt, settings and observations.

No generation, elapsed melting time, temperature, mass balance or material measurement has been verified here. A rendered puddle area cannot establish water volume, and changing reflections can obscure its boundary. Use this task to review visible continuity, not to present laboratory evidence.

The two-droplet task begins with two liquid bodies joining. The tilted-vessel task follows existing liquid inside a rotating container. This task follows one solid remnant and newly surrounding liquid while the container stays still. Changing the cube color or dish style alone would not make a new task.