Hacker News with Generative AI: 3D Modeling

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 18 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 28 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 28 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 31 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 36 days ago | 67 comments

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

Artificial Intelligence, 3D Modeling, Software, Tools

9 points by ice45571 39 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 49 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 64 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 71 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 76 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 78 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 83 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 88 days ago | 30 comments

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

New Releases, Software, 3D Modeling, Animation

241 points by antome 91 days ago | 111 comments

FreeCAD 1.0 (freecad.org)

New Releases, Software, CAD, 3D Modeling

28 points by MakisH 91 days ago | 4 comments

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.

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

83 points by lnyan 93 days ago | 10 comments

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! 🦀

3D Modeling, Rust

17 points by liamilan 93 days ago | 1 comments

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.

Generative AI, 3D Modeling, Computer Graphics

20 points by BUFU 94 days ago | 1 comments

Remix introduces TeleForm: 2D to 3D in milliseconds (remix.ing)

3D Modeling, Software, Design, New Releases

16 points by Brandonyowakim 95 days ago | 8 comments

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.

New Releases, Software, Open Source, 3D Modeling

14 points by Gedxx 96 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Artificial Intelligence

125 points by mentalgear 104 days ago | 17 comments

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.

3D Modeling, 4D Modeling, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Generative Models

9 points by sandwichsphinx 105 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Animation, Video Editing, Artificial Intelligence, 3D Modeling

143 points by bx376 111 days ago | 15 comments

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.

Hair, Computer Science, Geometry, 3D Modeling

184 points by cainxinth 130 days ago | 29 comments

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.

NASA, 3D Modeling, Open Source, Space Exploration

8 points by okl 134 days ago | 0 comments

Keep Track: 3D Satellite Toolkit (keeptrack.space)

Satellite Technology, 3D Modeling, Space Exploration, Open Source

180 points by jonbaer 142 days ago | 36 comments

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.

Computer Graphics, 3D Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Design, Scene Generation

188 points by lnyan 154 days ago | 18 comments

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.

History, 3D Modeling, Exploration, YouTube

210 points by fallinditch 167 days ago | 62 comments

Show HN: Learn Blender shortcuts with lots of tiny videos (hollisbrown.github.io)