This is a list of models and meshes commonly used in 3D computer graphics for testing and demonstrating rendering algorithms and visual effects. Their use is important for comparing results, similar to the way standard test images are used in image processing.
Modeled
Designed using CAD software; sorted by year of modeling.
Name and viewer Render Year of creation Person/organisation that did the modeling Description of source object Model size License Comments Utah teapot 1975 Martin Newell at University of Utah Melitta teapot 28 Bézier patches (32 with the bottom) Commercial use allowed Also called the "Newell teapot". One of the first models not to be measured. Cornell box 1984 Cindy M. Goral, Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg, Bennett Battaile at Cornell University A 2 foot square box, open on one side, two opposing interior sides each painted a contrasting color, with the rest of the box painted light gray 5 quads 1 light source Use as a 3D test model commonly relies on familiarity with the expected results rather than rerunning the experiment against a real-life setup. Suzanne 2002 Willem-Paul van Overbruggen for Blender Chimpanzee head, based on an orangutan from the movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 500 faces GNU GPL 2+ (inherited from Blender as a whole) Mascot for BlenderPrimitive instantiable by clicking Add → Mesh → Monkey Crytek Sponza 2010 Frank Meinl at Crytek The colonnaded atrium of the Sponza Palace in Dubrovnik 184,330 vertices 262,267 triangles Used for demonstrating global illumination techniques. The Crytek version is based on a model created by Marko Dabrović in early 2001 while he was at RNA studio, and donated to a radiosity competition held by CGTechniques.com in early 2002. Spot 2012 Keenan Crane at Caltech Cartoon cow 2,930 vertices5,856 triangles CC0 Catmull-Clark control mesh, quadrangulation, triangulation, vector texture, and bitmap texture. All meshes are manifold, genus-0 embeddings. 3DBenchy 2015 Creative Tools Cartoon toy boat 112,569 vertices 225,154 triangles CC0 Specifically designed for testing the accuracy and capabilities of 3D printers
Scanned
Includes photogrammetric methods; sorted by year of scanning.
Name and viewer Render Year of creation Person/organisation responsible for the scan Description of source object Model size License Comments Stanford bunny 1993-94 Greg Turk, Marc Levoy at Stanford University Ceramic rabbit 69,451 triangles Figurine of unknown authorship and licensing status, scan itself released under a two-clause BSD license. A test of range scanning physical objects. Originally .ply file. Stanford dragon 1996 Stanford University Chinese dragon 1,132,830 triangles Stanford Armadillo1996Venkat Krishnamurthy and Marc Levoy at Stanford UniversityArmadillo action figure345,944 trianglesFree for scholarly writings and research, attribution required, no commercial use without prior permissionWooden Elk Toy 2000 Hans-Peter Seidel at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik Often used as an example of a non-trivial object with high genus. Phlegmatic Dragon 2007 Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Technical University in PragueEurographics 2007 conference 667,214 faces (original)480,076 faces (smoothed) Sticker on the bottom says Smoothed and nonsmoothed David2009 Stanford University Michelangelo's 5-meter statue David ~1 billion polygons Only available to established scholars and for non-commercial use only. range data Fertility 2009 AIM@SHAPE Repository (scanned at Utrecht University) Small stone statue with two joined figures. 241,607 vertices483,226 triangles Laser scan. Nefertiti 2015 Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles A stoneworked bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti created in 1345 BC by Thutmose ~2 million triangles CC By SA 4.0 Surreptitiously scanned by Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, and subsequently separately by Scan the World with permission of the Neues Museum.
Gallery
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References
External links
Standard test models The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository hosted by the Stanford University Large Geometric Models Archive hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology Other repositories The Utah 3D Animation Repository, a small collection of animated 3D models scene collection, by Physically Based Rendering Toolkit: a number of interesting scenes to render with global illumination MGF Example Scenes, a small collection of some indoor 3D scenes archive3D, a collection of 3D models 3DModels, a collection of vehicle 3D models NASA 3D Models, NASA 3D models to use for educational or informational purposes VRML Models from ORC Incorporated, 3D models in VRML format 3dRender.com: Lighting Challenges, regularly held lighting challenges, complete with scene and models for each challenge MPI Informatics Building Model, a virtual reconstruction of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics building in Saarbrücken Keenan's 3D Model Repository hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University HeiCuBeDa Hilprecht – Heidelberg Cuneiform Benchmark Dataset for the Hilprecht Collection a collection of almost 2.000 cuneiform tablets for bulk-download acquired with a high-resolution 3D-scanner. Available under a CC BY license and quotable by digital object identifiers. Datasets cleaned using the GigaMesh Software Framework. HeiCu3Da Hilprecht – Heidelberg Cuneiform 3D Database - Hilprecht Collection browsable version of HeiCuBeDa allowing to download and quote single 3D models.