Hacker News with Generative AI: 3D Modeling

Blender 4.3 (blender.org)
Released November 19th, 2024
FreeCAD 1.0 (freecad.org)
GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation (nirvanalan.github.io)
GaussianAnything generates high-quality and editable surfel Gaussians through a cascaded 3D diffusion pipeline, given single-view images or texts as the conditions.
Show HN: Terminal3d – View 3D Models in Your Terminal, Built with Rust (github.com/liam-ilan)
Terminal3d (t3d) is a tool for viewing 3d .obj files, right in your terminal! 🦀
Nvidia presents Llama-Mesh: Generating 3D Mesh with Llama 3.1 8B (nvidia.com)
This work explores expanding the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) pretrained on text to generate 3D meshes within a unified model.
Remix introduces TeleForm: 2D to 3D in milliseconds (remix.ing)
FreeCAD 1.0 Release Candidate 4 is out (freecad.org)
We’ve just released the fourth v1.0 release can­di­date, you can down­load it on GitHub. There was no offi­cial announce­ment of RC3 yes­ter­day because we dis­cov­ered a regres­sion imme­di­ate­ly after releas­ing the builds.
URAvatar: Universal Relightable Gaussian Codec Avatars (junxuan-li.github.io)
In this work, we present URAvatar, a new approach to creating photorealistic and relightable head avatars using a phone scan with unknown illumination.
GenXD: Generating Any 3D and 4D Scenes (arxiv.org)
Recent developments in 2D visual generation have been remarkably successful. However, 3D and 4D generation remain challenging in real-world applications due to the lack of large-scale 4D data and effective model design.
Wonder Animation – Video to 3D Animation (autodesk.com)
Wonder Dynamics, an Autodesk company, launched the beta version of Wonder Animation, which uses groundbreaking Video to 3D scene technology to accelerate animated film production by turning any video sequence into a 3D-animated scene.
Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair (cs.yale.edu)
We present geometric methods for generating shapes that are characteristic of highly coiled hair.
NASA 3D Resources (nasa.gov)
Welcome to the 3D Resources site! Here you'll find a growing collection of 3D models, textures, and images from inside NASA. All of these resources are free to download and use. Please read the usage guidelines.
Keep Track: 3D Satellite Toolkit (keeptrack.space)
WonderWorld: Interactive 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image (kovenyu.com)
We present WonderWorld, a novel framework for interactive 3D scene generation that enables users to interactively specify scene contents and layout and see the created scenes in low latency.
How a 16th Century Explorer's Sailing Ship Works (youtube.com)
A new video on YouTube shows a detailed 3D model of the sailing ship that 16th-century explorer Ferdinand Magellan used to circumnavigate the globe.
Show HN: Learn Blender shortcuts with lots of tiny videos (hollisbrown.github.io)
Designing (Procedural) Monsters (2021) [video] (youtube.com)
Ask HN: Why are there so many 3D Gaussian splatting posts? (ycombinator.com)
Stable Fast 3D: Rapid 3D Asset Generation from Single Images (stability.ai)
Blender 4.2 (blender.org)
Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool (crocotile3d.com)
MeshAnything – Converts 3D representations into efficient 3D meshes (buaacyw.github.io)
Unique3D: Image-to-3D Generation from a Single Image (github.com/AiuniAI)
Walking the Titanic in 4K (Demo in Unreal Engine) [video] (youtube.com)
Sculpting the moon in R: Subdivision surfaces and displacement mapping (tylermw.com)
Official documentation of Framework Laptop 16 (Now featuring 3D CAD models) (github.com/FrameworkComputer)
Interview with Ton Roosendaal, the man behind Blender (2018) [video] (youtube.com)
Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective (toon3d.studio)
CAT3D: Create Anything in 3D with Multi-View Diffusion Models (cat3d.github.io)
Making a 3D modeler in C in a week (danielchasehooper.com)