Stanford dragon

Real rapid prototyping model of the kite.

The Stanford Dragon is a 3D scanner produced computer graphics -Testmodell of Stanford University .

The dragon consists of 871,414 triangles and was created by 3D scanning a real figure. The data can be used to test various graphing algorithms. The model is particularly suitable for simplifying polygons , compressing and smoothing surfaces . The dataset first appeared in 1996.

The model is available free of charge on the Internet in various file formats (.ply, vrml, vl, ...).

See also

• Stanford Bunny
• Utah teapot

Web links

• The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository has the Stanford kites available for download.
• Large Geometric Models Archive of Georgia Tech offers downloads in several standard file formats.
• MrBluesummers.com 3dsMax Resources Download the Stanford Kite in OBJ format

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to official information on the Stanford website there are 1,132,830 triangles, but the .ply file only contains 871,414 triangular faces.