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Cornell Box

The classic global illumination test scene, originally measured at Cornell University. Tests fundamental light transport: color bleeding between diffuse walls, soft shadows from an area light source, and indirect illumination. The simplest meaningful GI benchmark — every physically based renderer should produce a recognizable result.

Vertices

24

Faces

32

Lights

1 light: area

Textures

0

Resolution

1920 × 1080

Trivial
Global IlluminationColor BleedingSoft ShadowsIndirect Light

Renderer Outputs

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Available Formats

Every format below names the archive it comes from, so a benchmark you run locally reads the same geometry these renders were made from.

Fetch them with the CLI:

renderscope download-scenes --scene cornell-box
Original scene source