History of the artform – not much older than twenty years, but we’re losing some of the earlier stuff. This is the same site that had the Utrecht University Kitten, but that’s not available there now either (got it a few months ago, couldn’t get the pig then, decided to come back later, today found everything but the siteframe down).
A couple years ago I was looking into the origin of Suzanne, that teapot that keeps popping up, and a bunny model that I’d seen in a few places, and I came across an article on Wikipedia, List of common 3D test models. I had fun with the ones I could download (and load!) but some that people were working with routinely years ago I couldn’t find download links for – worrying. Every once in a while I try to find an older model – when I can’t maybe I ask about it here.