Western duel

A wide empty ground plane whose only cue is how quickly the gravel texture gets finer. That gradient is subtle, and a small misreading moves the second man by tens of meters.

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The picture

Western duel
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Where it shows

The difficulty is not spread evenly over the frame. Each link opens the comparison already zoomed to one of these places.

The far gunmanGravel in front

How the 13 shipped models read it

Each at its finest setting. The differences are the point - and the reason there is no score under any of them: a generated image has no ground-truth depth to score against, so what a map gets right is a judgment, not a number.

Depth Anything V2 Small depth map of Western duelDepth Anything V2 Small518×518Depth Anything V2 Small depth map of Western duelDepth Anything V2 Small518×518Depth Anything V2 Base depth map of Western duelDepth Anything V2 Base518×518Depth Anything V2 Base depth map of Western duelDepth Anything V2 Base518×518Depth Anything V2 Large depth map of Western duelDepth Anything V2 Large518×518Depth Anything V3 Mono Large depth map of Western duelDepth Anything V3 Mono Large1036×1036Depth Anything V3 Mono Large depth map of Western duelDepth Anything V3 Mono Large1036×1036Lotus-D depth map of Western duelLotus-D1024×1024Depth Anything V1 Small depth map of Western duelDepth Anything V1 Small518×518Depth Anything V1 Base depth map of Western duelDepth Anything V1 Base518×518MiDaS v2.1 Small depth map of Western duelMiDaS v2.1 Small256×256MiDaS DPT-Swin2-Tiny depth map of Western duelMiDaS DPT-Swin2-Tiny256×256MiDaS DPT-Hybrid depth map of Western duelMiDaS DPT-Hybrid384×384

63 further models are on this scene too - they are in the comparison rather than here, because a page of 76 pictures is a page nobody reads.

The other 24 scenes

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