The Cornell Box, Stanford Bunny, and Playboy Centerfold

Sunday October 30, 2005 Category: Research Permanent Link

At Wikipedia, one of the top search results for Cornell is the Cornell Box. Apparently, this is a standard in the computer graphics industry for testing rendering codes (and not the famous Big Red Box).

Today, the Cornell Box is often used to show off renderers in a similar way as the Stanford Bunny, the Utah teapot, and Lenna: computer scientists often use the scene just for its visual properties without comparing it to test data from a physical model.

Of course, the Cornell Box has its own website.