Fable 5.1
Open build ↗- Time, round 1 + 2
- 34 + 71 min
- GLB size
- 3.9 MB
- Triangles
- 20,580
- Distance to our model
- 1.57 mm
Closest shape to the photographs and to our model. Leather reads too smooth.
3D AI Compare
Can AI do
3D modeling?
We hand AI models the same brief a 3D studio gets and ask for the finished thing: a web-ready asset and a configurator built to sell. Then we measure what comes back against the real product.
Episode 02
A leather ballet flat
No CAD this time: four product photographs, the overall size and the maker's spec. Four models, two rounds. Round two was our feedback as the client. Surface distance is measured against the model our own 3D artist made, which the client approved.
Opus 5.5
Open build ↗- Time, round 1 + 2
- 37 + 65 min
- GLB size
- 5.8 MB
- Triangles
- 48,500
- Distance to our model
- 1.69 mm
Best leather grain of the four. Toe and heel still read square.
GPT-6 Sol
Open build ↗- Time, round 1 + 2
- 51 + 52 min
- GLB size
- 6.8 MB
- Triangles
- 45,616
- Distance to our model
- 1.87 mm
Biggest jump between rounds. A crease is left across the vamp.
GPT-6 Astra
Open build ↗- Time, round 1 + 2
- 14 + 32 min
- GLB size
- 6.4 MB
- Triangles
- 57,824
- Distance to our model
- 2.30 mm
Fastest by far. A fold runs along the side and heel.
Episode 01
GRAU Salt
A cordless aluminium table lamp, eight colourways. Both models shipped in 28 minutes. Our own version, built by our team of three, took roughly 20 hours.
Fable 5.1
Open build ↗- Time
- 28 min
- GLB size
- 76 KB
- Triangles
- 7,474
- Drift vs CAD
- 9.7 µm
Quantised and meshopt-compressed. Chose the lighter file.
GPT-6 Astra
Open build ↗- Time
- 28 min
- GLB size
- 214 KB
- Triangles
- 7,474
- Drift vs CAD
- 0.01 µm
Uncompressed Float32. Chose to be exact to the micron.
How this is measured
The manufacturer publishes the real CAD for this lamp. Every vertex of each delivered asset is measured against it, independently of what the models report about themselves. Both delivered exactly 7,474 triangles, the same count as the CAD. Neither reduced the geometry, and both were right not to.
The write-up, the scorecard and the material comparison: teatika.com/blog/can-ai-do-3d-modeling.
Episode 02 has no CAD. The four product photographs are the judge: every model, ours included, is measured against them from the side and from above. Episode 02 write-up: teatika.com/blog/can-ai-make-a-3d-model-from-photos.