Trametes versicolor in 3D

How well do generative 3D models rebuild Trametes versicolor? Every output below was produced by a model from the same brief, then compared blind against reference photographs of the real organism — so the question is biological fidelity, not which mesh looks prettiest.

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17 3D outputs
17 Models attempted
10 Human votes
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The real organism

CC-licensed reference photographs
Reference photograph of Trametes versicolor
no rights reserved, uploaded by Ken Kneidel
Reference photograph of Trametes versicolor
(c) Christine Young, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Reference photograph of Trametes versicolor
(c) Christine Young, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Reference photograph of Trametes versicolor
(c) Christine Young, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Reference photograph of Trametes versicolor
(c) Christine Young, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Reference photograph of Trametes versicolor
(c) Rick Farwell, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Reference photograph of Trametes versicolor
(c) Rick Farwell, some rights reserved (CC BY)

Models that attempted it

grouped by generation method
Model Method Outputs Votes
Meshy 6 Image→3D reconstruction 1 2
TRELLIS 2 Image→3D reconstruction 1 2
Hunyuan3D 3.1 Image→3D reconstruction 1 1
Hunyuan3D v2 Image→3D reconstruction 1 1
Pixal3D Image→3D reconstruction 1 1
SAM 3D Image→3D reconstruction 1 1
TRELLIS via Replicate Image→3D reconstruction 1 1
TripoSR Image→3D reconstruction 1 1
Hunyuan3D v3 Image→3D reconstruction 1 0
moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code LLM procedural (code-gen) 1 1
x-ai/grok-4.20 LLM procedural (code-gen) 1 1
x-ai/grok-4.5 LLM procedural (code-gen) 1 0
Hunyuan3D v3 text Text→3D (native) 1 1
Meshy v6 text Text→3D (native) 1 1
Rodin text via fal Text→3D (native) 1 1
Tripo P1 text Text→3D (native) 1 1
Tripo H3.1 text Text→3D (native) 1 0

Models are ranked within their own method, not against each other across methods — see the leaderboards for standings.

Tasks

Task Tier Outputs Votes
Trametes versicolor — single-image → 3D reconstruction hard 17 10

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