Suggestive Contour Gallery

The following are some images with suggestive contours, together with (in most cases) the 3D models from which they were created. All models linked here are believed to be redistributable for research and noncommercial use, but remain under copyright by their creators and are collected here purely for convenience (standard disclaimers apply). All images were produced using rtsc.

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These images may be used, with acknowledgment, for noncommercial purposes only.
− Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Doug DeCarlo, Adam Finkelstein, and Anothony Santella

Model: horse
Download:
horse.ply (96964 polygons)
horse2.ply (96964 polygons)
Source: Georgia Tech Large Geometric Models Archive
Notes: The first is the original model, while the second is slightly smoothed to get rid of scanning noise.

Model: bunny
Download:
             bunny.ply (69451 polygons)
             bunny2.ply (144046 polygons)
Source: Stanford 3D Scanning Repository
Notes: The first of these is the "classic" Stanford bunny, while the second is a new version made from the original high-resolution data, merged using the VRIP algorithm, and hole-filled.

Model: armadillo
Download:
             armadillo.ply (345944 polygons)
Source: Stanford 3D Scanning Repository

Model: "Lucy"
Download:
             lucy.ply (525814 polygons)
Source: Stanford 3D Scanning Repository
Notes: This a decimated version of the slightly-larger original (which is available at the Stanford website).

Model: lion
Download:
             lion.ply (367277 polygons)
             lion2.ply (367277 polygons)
Source: Stanford Graphics Lab
Notes: The first of these is the original, while the second has had its color lightened to make the lines more visible.

Model: santa
Download:
             santa.ply (151558 polygons)
             santa2.ply (151558 polygons)
Source: Cyberware
Notes: The first of these is the original, while the second has had its color lightened to make the lines more visible.

Model: Igea artifact
Download:
             igea.ply (268686 polygons)
Source: Cyberware
Notes: Is helped by quite a bit of smoothing.

Model: Max Planck bust
Download:
             maxplanck.ply (98260 polygons)
Source: MPI
Notes: Try smoothing the mesh and/or increasing the thresholds.

Model: brain
Download:
             brain.ply (36752 polygons)
             brain2.ply (588032 polygons)
Notes: The first of these is the original low-resolution polygon mesh, while the second was produced by applying a few iterations of subdivision. If you download the first one, you'll likely want to do the same.

Model: cow
Download:
             cow.ply (5804 polygons)
             cow2.ply (92864 polygons)
Source: Viewpoint Animation Engineering / Sun Microsystems
Notes: Again, the first is the original low-resolution polygon mesh, while the second has been subdivided.

Model: elephant
Download:
             elephant.ply (39290 polygons)
             elephant2.ply (157160 polygons)
Source: Espona
Notes: The second is a subdivided, smoothed version of the first.

Model: hippo
Download:
             hippo.ply (46202 polygons)
Source: Espona
Notes: Try subdividing and/or smoothing the mesh.

Model: pear
Download:
             pear.ply (21504 polygons)
Source: Modeled by Rob Kalnins for the WYSIWYG NPR project.

Model: heptoroid
Download:
             heptoroid.ply (573440 polygons)
Source: UC Berkeley Rapid Prototyping Project
Notes: Subdivided from the original.

Model: golfball
Download:
             golfball.ply (245760 polygons)
Notes: Check out this painting by Roy Lichtenstein.

Model: torus
Download:
             torus.ply (9600 polygons)

Model: Head of Michelangelo's David
Source: Digital Michelangelo Project

Model: Head of Michelangelo's St. Matthew
Source: Digital Michelangelo Project

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