Hacker News with Generative AI: 3D Modeling

We Built an AI Tool to Create High-Quality 3D Models from Regular Videos (ycombinator.com)
We're a team of AI researchers passionate about simplifying 3D modeling. We've built an easy-to-use tool that generates detailed, high-quality 3D models directly from regular videos.

Artificial Intelligence, 3D Modeling, Computer Vision

11 points by unrealizex 21 hours ago | 2 comments

Glubux's Powerwall (2016) (secondlifestorage.com)
A quick presentation of my project.

Virtual Reality, Second Life, 3D Modeling

386 points by bentobean 2 days ago | 272 comments

The Wrong Way to Use a Signed Distance Function (SDF) (winterbloed.be)
Disclaimer: there’s nothing wrong with using a sdf this way.

Computer Graphics, Programming, 3D Modeling, Software Development

49 points by AnthonBerg 5 days ago | 6 comments

Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool (blender.org)
Blender 4.4 is all about stability. During the 2024–2025 northern hemisphere winter, Blender developers doubled down on quality and stability in a group effort called “Winter of Quality.”

Software, Open Source, 3D Modeling, Film, Design

810 points by babuloseo 8 days ago | 282 comments

Roblox releases code for Cube 3D Mesh Gen model (github.com/Roblox)
Foundation models trained on vast amounts of data have demonstrated remarkable reasoning and generation capabilities in the domains of text, images, audio and video. Our goal is to build such a foundation model for 3D intelligence, a model that can support developers in producing all aspects of a Roblox experience, from generating 3D objects and scenes to rigging characters for animation to producing programmatic scripts describing object behaviors.

3D Modeling, Generative AI, Roblox, Foundation Models, AI

20 points by moneil971 14 days ago | 0 comments

Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090 (github.com/Tencent)

Generative AI, 3D Modeling, Computer Graphics, Hardware

180 points by dvrp 15 days ago | 77 comments

Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds (szymanowiczs.github.io)
Feed-forward 3D scene generation in 6.25s on a single GPU.

3D Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics

290 points by jasondavies 15 days ago | 53 comments

Blender 4.4 (blender.org)
Improved animation workflow, better modeling, new sculpt brush, and smoother video editing, plus over 700 issues fixed.

New Releases, Software, 3D Modeling, Video Editing, Animation

13 points by antome 16 days ago | 0 comments

Roblox Open-Sourcing Cube 3D Mesh Gen Model (roblox.com)
We are releasing our Cube 3D foundational model for generative AI.

Generative AI, Open Source, 3D Modeling, Roblox

13 points by moneil971 17 days ago | 1 comments

BlenderMCP: Blender Model Context Protocol Integration (github.com/ahujasid)
BlenderMCP connects Blender to Claude AI through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing Claude to directly interact with and control Blender. This integration enables prompt assisted 3D modeling, scene creation, and manipulation.

Blender, 3D Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Claude AI

54 points by admp 21 days ago | 1 comments

Laplacian Mesh Smoothing by Throwing Vertices (nosferalatu.com)
In this blog post, I’ll talk about smoothing and blurring 3D meshes using Laplacian mesh smoothing.

3D Modeling, Computer Graphics, Mesh Processing, Laplacian Smoothing

42 points by nosferalatu123 22 days ago | 10 comments

Soft body procedural animation [video] (youtube.com)

Procedural Animation, Computer Graphics, Video, 3D Modeling

5 points by ibobev 24 days ago | 0 comments

Thoughts on Signed Distance Functions for CAD (incoherency.co.uk)
I've got into signed distance functions recently and am interested in their application to CAD software.

3D Modeling, Mathematics

7 points by surprisetalk 25 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
Welcome to my 3D model of San Francisco's Sutro Tower. Feel free to explore it at your own pace. If you're on a phone, you can also engage the AR mode by clicking the little cube, it'll let you explore the scene by walking around and waving your phone.

3D Modeling, San Francisco, Augmented Reality, Interactive Art

825 points by akanet 42 days ago | 193 comments

WonderHuman: 3D avatars from single-view video (arxiv.org)
In this paper, we present WonderHuman to reconstruct dynamic human avatars from a monocular video for high-fidelity novel view synthesis.

Computer Vision, 3D Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Animation

38 points by jinqueeny 43 days ago | 6 comments

Building a Mesh Using Spherical Embedding (andrews.wiki)
When trying to build a 3D model of an object in the real world, the goal is most often to construct a connected mesh of triangles or quadrilaterals that represents that object's surface.

3D Modeling, Computer Graphics, Geometry, Algorithms

55 points by CarpeQueso 62 days ago | 6 comments

Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation (github.com/Tencent)
We present Hunyuan3D 2.0, an advanced large-scale 3D synthesis system for generating high-resolution textured 3D assets.

Generative AI, 3D Modeling, Computer Graphics, AI, Machine Learning

323 points by TheGuyWhoCodes 72 days ago | 142 comments

FreeCAD 1.0 (freecad.org)
FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.

Open-source, 3D Modeling, Software, Design, New Releases

14 points by barrettondricka 72 days ago | 1 comments

Infinigen (infinigen.org)
Infinigen is a procedural generator of 3D scenes, developed by Princeton Vision & Learning Lab.

3D Modeling, Procedural Generation, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision

319 points by galaxyLogic 75 days ago | 35 comments

Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation (pbr-book.org)
Photorealistic computer graphics are ubiquitous in today's world, widely used in movies and video games as well as product design and architecture.

Computer Graphics, Rendering, 3D Modeling, Visual Effects

218 points by ahamez 80 days ago | 67 comments

AI-Powered 2D to 3D Model Generator (3dify.space)

Artificial Intelligence, 3D Modeling, Software, Tools

9 points by ice45571 83 days ago | 2 comments

Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine (cesium.com)
Built on open standards and APIs, Cesium for Unreal combines the 3D geospatial capability of Cesium with the high-fidelity rendering power of Unreal Engine, unlocking the 3D geospatial ecosystem for game engines.

3D Modeling, Game Development, Unreal Engine, Geospatial Data

158 points by doodlesdev 93 days ago | 56 comments

High-Fidelity 3D Mesh Generation at Scale with Meshtron – Nvidia Technical Blog (nvidia.com)
Meshes are one of the most important and widely used representations of 3D assets. They are the default standard in the film, design, and gaming industries and they are natively supported by virtually all the 3D softwares and graphics hardwares.

3D Modeling, Graphics, NVIDIA, Software, Technology

35 points by rbanffy 108 days ago | 8 comments

Trellis – 3D mesh generative model (trellis3d.github.io)
We introduce a novel 3D generation method for versatile and high-quality 3D asset creation.

3D Modeling, Generative AI, Machine Learning

445 points by tarr11 115 days ago | 80 comments

Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model (deepmind.google)
Today we introduce Genie 2, a foundation world model capable of generating an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D environments for training and evaluating embodied agents.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, 3D Modeling, Computer Vision, Embodied Agents

1247 points by meetpateltech 120 days ago | 410 comments

World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image (worldlabs.ai)

3D Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Computer Vision

487 points by dmarcos 122 days ago | 135 comments

picoCAD – a tiny modeler for tiny models (steampowered.com)
A tiny modeler for tiny models! Unleash your creativity in retro 3D and find a fun, easy, and accessible way into 3D modelling by focusing on the bare essentials.

3D Modeling, Software, Retro, Creative Projects

221 points by johanpeitz 127 days ago | 32 comments

The Deceptively Asymmetric Unit Sphere (tangramvision.com)
Previously, we talked about [Pinhole Obsession](https://www.tangramvision.com/blog/camera-modeling-pinhole-obsession) and the downsides of assuming a default pinhole model. We presented an alternative formulation where rays are modeled on the unit sphere \(\mathcal{S}^2\) instead of the normalized image plane \(\mathbb{T}^2\).

Computer Vision, Mathematics, 3D Modeling

139 points by ThatGeoGuy 132 days ago | 30 comments

Blender 4.3 (blender.org)
Released November 19th, 2024

New Releases, Software, 3D Modeling, Animation

241 points by antome 135 days ago | 111 comments

FreeCAD 1.0 (freecad.org)

New Releases, Software, CAD, 3D Modeling

28 points by MakisH 135 days ago | 4 comments