Strategic thinking

  Devise a strategy for the dog in the picture to retrieve its ball that fell into the pond without getting its body wet, with no humans nearby to help."

This is a problem-solving or creative thinking exercise asking someone to come up with a plan for how a dog could get its ball back from water without getting wet and without human assistance.

Animate your strategy in svg or in 3d.

Solution 1

3D Use of float bridge , 

3D use of float bridge (thought out by Claude itself) Veo 2 (video w/ base image)

float bridge Imagen 4, another, Veo 2 (video)

Solution 2 

float + paddling inspired by student

Solution 3

3D, base 2D float push, wave making, another 2D

solution 4

Noodle Nudge Veo2 imagen 4

many clever strategies by Gemini 2.5 Pro

original video on social media