Hacker News with Generative AI: 3D Modeling

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.
AI-Powered 2D to 3D Model Generator (3dify.space)
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.
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.
Trellis – 3D mesh generative model (trellis3d.github.io)
We introduce a novel 3D generation method for versatile and high-quality 3D asset creation.
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.
World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image (worldlabs.ai)
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.
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 \(\mathbb{T}^2\).
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)