Stanford dragon

A reproduction of the dragon made with a rapid prototyping machine

The Stanford dragon is a computer graphics 3D test model created with a Cyberware 3030 Model Shop (MS) Color 3D Scanner at Stanford University.

The dragon consists of data describing 871,414 triangles[note 1][1] determined by 3D scanning a real figurine. The data set is often used to test various graphics algorithms, including polygonal simplification, compression, and surface smoothing.[2] It first appeared in 1996.

The model is available in different file formats (.ply, vrml, vl, ...) on the web for free.

See also

Notes

  1. Although the Stanford web page says that it has 1,132,830 triangles, the actual face count is 871,414 in the .ply file.

References

  1. Zomorodian, Afra J. (2005-01-10). Topology for Computing. Cambridge University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9781139442633.
  2. Kumar, Vipin; Gavrilova, Marina L.; Tan, C. J. Kenneth; L'Ecuyer, Pierre (2003-08-03). Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2003: International Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 18-21, 2003, Proceedings. Springer. p. 290. ISBN 9783540448426.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/30/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.