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Still life with the ancestorsCategory: sceneCapture: stillsPrompt: v2Difficulty: ▮▮▮▮
TX: cg-still-life.md — composed prompt
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Task

Complete the following Blender task:

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A classical still life in the Dutch Golden Age manner — dark ground, draped cloth, a shaft of warm light, objects arranged with deliberate care — except every object on the table is a monument of computer-graphics history. The twist must work in both directions: read as a museum-worthy still life at arm's length, and land as one long graphics in-joke on the second look.

The cast (required objects, all modeled in-scene — no imported meshes, no downloaded assets).

  • The Utah Teapot, hero of the arrangement: the classic squat proportions with the familiar spout, handle, and lid. Give it an honest ceramic or silver-teapot material worthy of a Vermeer table.
  • The Stanford Bunny, approximated: the recognizable compact crouched-rabbit silhouette with its rounded back and folded ears, at rest on the table like a sculpture. A faithful sculptural likeness of the pose is what counts, not vertex-level accuracy.
  • Suzanne, Blender's own monkey head, mounted or resting as a bust among the objects — she may be the one "portrait" gazing out of the arrangement.
  • A reflective checkered sphere — the ray-tracing demo classic — polished enough to catch the rest of the arrangement in its reflection.
  • At least one supporting classical prop to sell the genre: fruit, a candlestick, an open book, a wine glass — pick what the composition needs.

The Cornell nod. Work the Cornell box palette into the scene's fabric: one strong red and one strong green element facing each other across the composition — draped cloths, wall panels, or book covers — with neutral white/grey between them, so the whole frame quietly becomes the box.

Materials & light. Chiaroscuro is the assignment: a single dominant warm light source (window shaft or candle) from one side, deep soft shadow elsewhere, a dark background that lets the objects emerge. Materials do the storytelling — glazed ceramic, patinated metal, velvet-dark cloth with real fold structure, polished chrome on the sphere. Everything slightly aged, nothing laboratory-clean.

Composition. A table edge in the lower frame, objects grouped in overlapping depth with the teapot commanding the arrangement, camera at the intimate slightly-elevated angle of the genre, roughly 50mm equivalent. The image should hold together as one calm, deliberate painting.

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RUNPROMPTCONTESTANTSTATUSCOST
r1 · 2026-09-05v2OpenAI / GPT 6 Astra / thinking:mediumok$0.57
r1 · 2026-07-31v2OpenAI / GPT 5.6 Luna / thinking:maxok$0.05
r1 · 2026-07-19v2OpenAI / GPT 5.6 Sol / thinking:maxok$1.84
r1 · 2026-07-19v2Google / Gemma 4 31b Itok$0.00
r1 · 2026-07-19v2DeepSeek / Deepseek V4 Flashok$0.00
r1 · 2026-07-19v2Anthropic / Sonnet 5 / thinking:lowok$0.08
r1 · 2026-07-17v2OpenAI / GPT 5.6 Lunaok$0.04
r1 · 2026-07-17v2Anthropic / Sonnet 5ok$1.12
r1 · 2026-07-17v2Moonshot AI / Kimi K3 / thinking:maxmodel_error$0.67
r1 · 2026-07-17v2OpenAI / GPT 5.6 Terraok$0.10
r1 · 2026-07-17v2OpenAI / GPT 5.6 Solok$0.41
r1 · 2026-07-17v2OpenAI / GPT 5.6 Lunaok$0.04
r1 · 2026-07-17v2Z.AI / GLM 5.2model_error$0.56
r1 · 2026-07-16v2OpenAI / GPT 5.6 Lunaok$0.05
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