List of common 3D test models

! Name and viewer

! Render

! Year of creation

! Person/organisation that did the modeling

! Description of source object

! Model size

! License

! Comments

| file:Utah Teapot mr maya.jpg

| 1975

| Martin Newell at University of Utah

| Melitta teapot

| 28 Bézier patches (32 with the bottom){{Cite web|title=The Utah Teapot|url=http://holmes3d.net/graphics/teapot|access-date=2020-10-28|website=holmes3d.net}}

|

| Also called the "Newell teapot". One of the first models not to be measured.

| File:Cornell_Box_Octane_(6K,_8bit).png

| 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.

|File:RenderResult.jpg

| 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

|File:Crytek_Sponza.png

| 2010

| Frank Meinl at Crytek

| The colonnaded atrium of the Sponza Palace in Dubrovnik

| 262,267 triangles
184,330 vertices{{cite web | url=https://casual-effects.com/data/ | title=McGuire Computer Graphics Archive | author=Morgan McGuire}}

|

| Used for demonstrating global illumination techniques.{{cite book | title=Mastering mental ray: Rendering Techniques for 3D and CAD Professionals | url=https://archive.org/details/masteringmentalr00ocon_833 | url-access=limited | author=Jennifer O'Connor | page=[https://archive.org/details/masteringmentalr00ocon_833/page/n198 175] | quote=The Sponza Palaze atrium scene has become a classic demonstration model for indirect illumination techniques in a wide variety of applications | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | date=1 July 2010 | isbn=978-0470563854}}{{cite magazine | url=https://www.wired.com/2014/09/nvidia-moon | quote=It cooked up a demo using a standard graphics simulation called the Sponza Atrium, a computer-generated stroll through a renaissance-style hallway. | title=Nvidia Proves We Walked on the Moon—Not That It Needed To | magazine=Wired | author=Robert McMillan | date=24 September 2014}}{{cite book | title=Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation | url=https://archive.org/details/physicallybasedr00phar | url-access=limited | author1=Matt Pharr | author2=Greg Humphreys | page=[https://archive.org/details/physicallybasedr00phar/page/n521 493] | publisher=Morgan Kaufmann | isbn=978-0123750792 | date=26 August 2010 }}{{cite book | title=Practical Global Illumination with Irradiance Caching | url=https://archive.org/details/practicalglobali00kriv | url-access=limited | author1=Jaroslav Krivanek | author2=Pascal Gautron | page=[https://archive.org/details/practicalglobali00kriv/page/n98 85] | date=2009 | publisher=Morgan & Claypool Publishers | isbn=978-1598296440 }} 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.{{cite web |last1=Abecassis |first1=Laurent |title=On The Web – RNA studio's GI architectural renderings |url=https://cgpress.org/archives/on_the_web_rna_studios_gi_architectural_renderings.html |website=CGPress |date=3 April 2001 |access-date=4 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604151756/https://cgpress.org/archives/on_the_web_rna_studios_gi_architectural_renderings.html |archive-date=4 June 2021}}{{cite web |title=Sponza Atrium - Hatch Studios |url=http://hatchstudios.com/work/sponza-atrium/ |website=Hatch Studios |access-date=4 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225162733/http://hatchstudios.com/work/sponza-atrium/ |archive-date=25 February 2021}}

|File:Spot the cow.png

| 2012

| Keenan Crane at Caltech

| cartoon cow

| 2,930 vertices
5,856 triangles

|

| Catmull-Clark control mesh, quadrangulation, triangulation, vector texture, and bitmap texture. All meshes are manifold, genus-0 embeddings.

| File:3DBenchy created using color mixing on an FDM printer.jpg

| 2015

| Creative Tools

| cartoon boat

| 112,569 verts (225,154 tris)

| CC0{{cite web

|title=License - 3DBenchy.com

|date=7 April 2015

|url=https://www.3dbenchy.com/license/

|access-date=29 March 2022}}

| Specifically designed for testing the accuracy and capabilities of 3D printers

! Name and viewer

! Render

! Year of creation

! Person/organisation responsible for the scan

! Description of source object

! Model size

! License

! Comments

| file:Mesh bunny.png

| 1993-94{{cite web|title=The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository|url=http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=17 July 2011|date=22 Dec 2010}}

| Greg Turk, Marc Levoy at Stanford University

| Ceramic rabbit{{cite web|title=The Stanford Bunny|url=http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bunny/bunny.html|accessdate=18 July 2011|author=Greg Turk|author-link=Greg Turk|year=2000}}

| 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.

| File:Stanford Dragon.jpg

| 1996

| Stanford University

| Chinese dragon

| 1,132,830 triangles

|

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|File:Stanford-armadillo-test-model-rendered-in-blender-cycles.jpg

|1996

|Venkat Krishnamurthy and Marc Levoy at Stanford University

|Armadillo action figure

|345,944 triangles

|Free for scholarly writings and research, attribution required, no commercial use without prior permission

|

|File:ElkToy3DRender.png

| 2000{{cite web|url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/doc/10.1.1.18.3510 |title=Building a Photo Studio for Measurement Purposes|date=January 2000|publisher=Computer Graphics Group, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik |author1=Michael Goesele | author2=Wolfgang Heidrich |author3=Hendrik P. A. Lensch | author4=Hans-Peter Seidel|id={{CiteSeerX|10.1.1.18.3510}}}}

| Hans-Peter Seidel at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

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| Often used as an example of a non-trivial object with high genus.

| File:Phlegmatic Dragon.jpg

| 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 {{not a typo|"GRUNCH © PANTON '88 MADE IN ENGLAND"}}

| Smoothed and nonsmoothed

|

|2009

| Stanford University

| Michelangelo's 5-meter statue David

| ~1 billion polygons{{cite web|last1=Levoy|first1=Marc|date=November 27, 1998|title=The Stanford Large Statue Scanner|url=http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/mgantry-in-lab/mgantry-in-lab.html|accessdate=22 September 2014|publisher=Stanford University}}

| Only available to established scholars and for non-commercial use only.

| range data

|File:Fertility3DRender.png

| 2009

| AIM@SHAPE Repository (scanned at Utrecht University)

| Small stone statue with two joined figures.

| 241,607 vertices
483,226 triangles

|

| Laser scan.

| file:bust of Nefertiti at the Neues Museum, Berlin.stl

| 2015

| Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles

| A stoneworked bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti was created in 1345 BC by Thutmose

| ~2 million triangles

| CC By SA 4.0

| [http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com Surreptitiously] scanned by Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, and subsequently separately by Scan the World with permission of the Neues Museum.