List of common 3D test models
Models by year of creation

List of common 3D test models

Section Title: Models by year of creation
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Model name	Year of creation	Creator	Origin	Model size (vertices or triangles)	Creation method	Inspiration (if any)	Comments

VW Bug	1972	Ivan Sutherland	University of Utah	Measured by hand	Volkswagen Beetle belonging to Ivan Sutherland's wife, Marsha	Real car, measured by hand using yardsticks

Utah teapot, Newell teapot	1975	Martin Newell	University of Utah	Modeled	Melitta teapot

Cornell box	1984	Cindy M. Goral, Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg, Bennett Battaile	Cornell University	Modeled	Many different versions of the Cornell Box exist, although one of them is considered the standard Cornell Box.

Stanford Bunny	1993-94	Greg Turk, Marc Levoy	Stanford University	69,451 triangles	Scanned	Clay bunny

Happy Buddha	1996	Brian Curless, Marc Levoy	Stanford University	1,087,474 triangles and 543,524 vertices	Scanned	Budai statuette

Stanford Dragon	1996	Stanford University	1,132,830 triangles	Scanned	Chinese dragon.

Armadillo	1996	Stanford University	345,944 triangles	Scanned	Armadillo toy.

Suzanne	2002	Willem-Paul van Overbruggen	Blender (software)	500 faces	Modeled	Orangutan from the movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back	Chimpanzee model; reached in blender by clicking Add → Mesh → Monkey.

Phlegmatic Dragon	2007	See comment	Eurographics 2007 conference	original: 667,214 faces; smoothed: 480,076 faces	Scanned

Stanford Lucy	Stanford University	14,027,872 vertices, 28,055,742 triangles	Scanned	Scanned model of Christian angel.

Asian Dragon	Stanford University	3,609,455 vertices, 7,218,906 triangles	Scanned	A different Chinese dragon.

Thai Statue	Stanford University	Original model: 19,400,000 vertices (38,800,000 triangles); model provided: 5,000,000 vertices (10,000,000 triangles)	Scanned	Scanned model of Thai statue

David	Stanford University	About 1 billion polygons	Scanned	Michelangelo's 5-meter statue of David	Only available to established scholars and for non-commercial use only.

Venus

Fertility	2009	AIM@SHAPE Repository (scanned at Utrecht University)	241,607 vertices, 483,226 triangles	Scanned	Small statue with two joined figures. Laser scanned from a stone sculpture.

Spot	2012	Keenan Crane	The California Institute of Technology	2,930 vertices, 5,856 triangles	Modeled	A spotted cow homeomorphic to a sphere. Comes with Catmull-Clark control mesh, quadrangulation, triangulation, vector texture, and bitmap texture.

Wooden Elk Toy	2000	Hans-Peter Seidel	Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Computer Graphics Group	Photogrammetry	Often used as an example of a non-trivial object with high genus.

Bust of Max Planck	2001	Hans-Peter Seidel	Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Computer Graphics Group	Scanned

3DBenchy	2015	Creative Tools	Specifically designed for testing the accuracy and capabilities of 3D printers

Nefertiti	c. 1370 BC – c. 1330 BC	Thutmose (sculptor)	approx. 2 million triangles	Scanned	Nefertiti	This archive contains a bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, composed of about two million triangles. The mesh was scanned by Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles from the Nefertiti bust, which was created in 1345 BC by Thutmose.

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Suzanne is Blender's common test model.

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