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Why 3D artists test models on a chimpanzee head

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Instead of testing lighting on a boring cube or sphere, some digital modeling tools offer a decapitated chimpanzee head named Suzanne. She was added purely as an eccentric placeholder mesh to help artists test complicated geometry without having to build a face from scratch.

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