Stanford Dragon

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A reproduction of the dragon made with a rapid prototyping machine

The Stanford Dragon is a computer graphics 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] 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. It first appeared in 1996.

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

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  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.

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