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LingBot-Map: The 3D Mapper That Replaces Bundle Adjustment with Memory
3D Generative AI
LingBot-Map: The 3D Mapper That Replaces Bundle Adjustment with Memory
A deep dive into the Geometric Context Transformer, the memory tricks that keep long video streams stable, and why this repo feels less like SLAM software and more like a geometric operating system.
12 min read
Tencent-Hunyuan/Hunyuan3D-2: Translating Pixels to Polygons
3D Generative AI
Tencent-Hunyuan/Hunyuan3D-2: Translating Pixels to Polygons
How a Flow-Matching Diffusion Transformer and parallel data streams turned days of manual 3D modeling and UV mapping into a sub-10-second inference step.
8 min read
Pascal Editor: The Browser CAD Built Like a Game Engine
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Pascal Editor: The Browser CAD Built Like a Game Engine
A deep dive into the flat scene store, dirty-node update loop, and WebGPU-ready architecture that make real-time architectural editing work in the browser.
8 min read
Nutlope/logocreator: How to Turn a Diffusion Model Into a Logo Product
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Nutlope/logocreator: How to Turn a Diffusion Model Into a Logo Product
A close look at the code that rails prompt generation, uses Clerk metadata as lightweight state, and makes FLUX feel like a focused branding tool instead of a blank canvas.
8 min read
awesome-gpt-image-2: When Image Prompts Become Code
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awesome-gpt-image-2: When Image Prompts Become Code
A reverse-engineered template library that treats GPT Image 2 like a structured rendering engine, with JSON schemas, anti-pitfall rules, and gallery cases that behave like tests.
9 min read
logocreator: The Open-Source Logo Generator That Tames Flux With Constraints
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logocreator: The Open-Source Logo Generator That Tames Flux With Constraints
A Next.js app that turns a general image model into a focused branding tool by narrowing the prompt, limiting the UI, and pushing heavy usage onto user-owned API keys.
7 min read
photo-abstract-editorial: A Prompt System That Turns Photos Into Their Own Visual Echo
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photo-abstract-editorial: A Prompt System That Turns Photos Into Their Own Visual Echo
Instead of repainting the whole image, this Codex Skill preserves the original photo and builds a disciplined abstract companion panel from its spatial facts, palette, and rhythm.
8 min read
Compiling CAD in the Browser: Inside CADAM
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Compiling CAD in the Browser: Inside CADAM
How an open-source project uses WebAssembly and a decades-old C++ engine to turn language models into parametric 3D designers.
8 min read
MMAction2: The Config Engine Behind Video AI
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MMAction2: The Config Engine Behind Video AI
A deep dive into the OpenMMLab toolbox that turns video understanding into reusable configs, hooks, and task modules.
10 min read
SuperSplat: The Browser Editor That Makes 3D Gaussian Splats Feel Editable
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SuperSplat: The Browser Editor That Makes 3D Gaussian Splats Feel Editable
How PlayCanvas built a web-native 3DGS tool that handles selection, cleanup, sorting, and export by treating splat state as GPU data, not expensive mesh edits.
11 min read
WICG/html-in-canvas: When HTML Stops Living Above the Canvas
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WICG/html-in-canvas: When HTML Stops Living Above the Canvas
A browser proposal that lets real DOM content participate in layout, hit-testing, and accessibility, then get drawn into 2D and 3D rendering pipelines as a native primitive.
8 min read
vggt-omega: VGGT-Ω: The Geometry Model That Learned to Think in Registers
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vggt-omega: VGGT-Ω: The Geometry Model That Learned to Think in Registers
How Meta AI and Oxford rebuilt feed-forward 3D reconstruction around compact memory, multi-task heads, and a geometry-first Transformer that scales beyond classic SfM.
9 min read
Box3D: The Physics Engine That Treats Determinism Like a Feature
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Box3D: The Physics Engine That Treats Determinism Like a Feature
A 3D successor to Box2D that swaps raw pointers for IDs, rewrites math for repeatability, and uses soft stepping to keep stacks, joints, and large worlds from falling apart.
10 min read
build123d: The Algebraic Engine for CAD-as-Code
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build123d: The Algebraic Engine for CAD-as-Code
How a Python framework rejected fluent APIs and embraced operator overloading to turn physical manufacturing into a standard software pipeline.
8 min read
Claude-of-Duty: Claude of Duty: How a One-Prompt FPS Became a Testbed for Agentic Game Engineering
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Claude-of-Duty: Claude of Duty: How a One-Prompt FPS Became a Testbed for Agentic Game Engineering
A browser shooter built with Three.js, WebGL2, and zero external assets, where the bigger story is the agent workflow, the procedural pipeline, and the ruthless regression testing that keeps it all standing.
9 min read
3DCellForge: The AI-to-3D Studio That Treats Generated Models Like Production Assets
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3DCellForge: The AI-to-3D Studio That Treats Generated Models Like Production Assets
A provider-agnostic workbench that generates, caches, scores, and stages 3D assets with the kind of workflow discipline most image-to-3D tools skip.
10 min read
The Calculus of Animation: Inside synfig/synfig
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The Calculus of Animation: Inside synfig/synfig
How a two-decade-old C++ engine uses mathematical tweening and custom smart pointers to automate the labor of 2D animation.
12 min read
Anatomy Atelier: One Developer, One Browser, and a 3D Anatomy Lab That Feels Real
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Anatomy Atelier: One Developer, One Browser, and a 3D Anatomy Lab That Feels Real
How thebuggeddev/anatomy turns AI-generated assets, Three.js, and Cloudflare-native delivery into a polished medical learning tool that behaves like a gallery, not a static textbook.
9 min read
void-model: VOID by Netflix: The Video Editor That Removes Objects and Their Physics
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void-model: VOID by Netflix: The Video Editor That Removes Objects and Their Physics
How a two-pass diffusion system, a vision-language reasoner, and counterfactual training data turn video inpainting into causal scene rewriting.
8 min read
lingbot-world-v2: LingBot-World-Infinity: The Open-Source World Model That Refuses to Forget
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lingbot-world-v2: LingBot-World-Infinity: The Open-Source World Model That Refuses to Forget
How Robbyant turns video generation into a live simulation with causal attention, KV-cache sinks, and real-time control.
10 min read
The Invisible Bridge: Inside the NVIDIA DLSS SDK
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The Invisible Bridge: Inside the NVIDIA DLSS SDK
How a massive C-API orchestrates the shift from traditional rasterization to hardware-accelerated neural rendering.
diff-gaussian-rasterization: The GPU Rasterizer That Made 3D Gaussians Trainable
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diff-gaussian-rasterization: The GPU Rasterizer That Made 3D Gaussians Trainable
How a PyTorch-backed CUDA pipeline, tile sorting, and differentiable splatting turned a point cloud of anisotropic Gaussians into a real-time graphics primitive.
9 min read
img2threejs: When Image-to-3D Becomes Code-to-3D
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img2threejs: When Image-to-3D Becomes Code-to-3D
A zero-dependency pipeline turns a single image into procedural Three.js factories, so AI agents can rebuild, inspect, and refine 3D objects as source code instead of opaque meshes.
9 min read
Modly: The Desktop App That Turns Local AI 3D Into a Plug-In Pipeline
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Modly: The Desktop App That Turns Local AI 3D Into a Plug-In Pipeline
A look at the sidecar architecture, extension protocol, and GPU-native post-processing that make image-to-mesh generation feel like a real product instead of a research demo.
10 min read
Project Lyra: When a Video Model Learns to Build 3D Worlds
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Project Lyra: When a Video Model Learns to Build 3D Worlds
A look at NVIDIA’s self-distillation pipeline, where imagined camera moves become Gaussian splats, and splats become real-time explorable scenes.
10 min read
Three.js-Object-Sculptor-Codex-Plugin: Three.js Object Sculptor Codex Plugin: Why the Best 3D AI Tool Slows Down
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Three.js-Object-Sculptor-Codex-Plugin: Three.js Object Sculptor Codex Plugin: Why the Best 3D AI Tool Slows Down
A Codex plugin that rebuilds reference images as procedural Three.js factories by forcing the model through blockout, validation, and refinement passes instead of a one-shot mesh dump.
9 min read
JoyAI-Echo: The Video Model That Remembers the Story
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JoyAI-Echo: The Video Model That Remembers the Story
A look at the memory bank, distilled inference, and audio-visual anchoring system that lets a single prompt grow into a coherent multi-shot sequence.
9 min read
birds.cafe: The Browser Sim That Makes Weather Feel Alive
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birds.cafe: The Browser Sim That Makes Weather Feel Alive
A zero-build WebGL scene uses atmospheric scattering, procedural bird motion, and tiled ocean tricks to turn physics into serenity.
8 min read
nurb: Teaching an LLM to Design Plastic That Actually Prints
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nurb: Teaching an LLM to Design Plastic That Actually Prints
An opinionated, local-first CAD environment turns natural language into parametric solids, then pushes the model through printability checks, real geometry, and iterative repair.
10 min read
VTP: Giving Diffusion Models a Semantic Brain
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VTP: Giving Diffusion Models a Semantic Brain
How MiniMax-AI moved beyond pixel-perfect reconstruction to unlock the scaling laws of visual tokenization.
ComfyUI-Trellis2: The 3D Generator That Hides Its Complexity in Structured Latents
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ComfyUI-Trellis2: The 3D Generator That Hides Its Complexity in Structured Latents
A deep dive into the ComfyUI wrapper that turns TRELLIS.2 into a practical image-to-mesh pipeline, with sparse tokens, flow matching, custom CUDA, and enough memory discipline to run like a real tool.
9 min read
The WebGL Antidote: How meodai/heerich Renders 3D in Pure SVG
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The WebGL Antidote: How meodai/heerich Renders 3D in Pure SVG
By discarding the GPU in favor of a custom polygon clipping engine, this zero-dependency library brings architectural voxel art to pen plotters and generative designers.
6 min read
One-RL-to-See-Them-All: Teaching Vision-Language Models to See via Reinforcement
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One-RL-to-See-Them-All: Teaching Vision-Language Models to See via Reinforcement
How MiniMax-AI unified perception and reasoning into a single RL pipeline using Dynamic IoU rewards.
sdweb-merge-block-weighted-gui: The Tool That Lets You Mix Stable Diffusion Models Block by Block
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sdweb-merge-block-weighted-gui: The Tool That Lets You Mix Stable Diffusion Models Block by Block
Instead of one merge ratio, this extension gives you 25. That turns model merging from a guess into a controlled design process.
9 min read
asset-harvester: NVIDIA Asset Harvester: The Pipeline That Turns AV Logs Into 3D Assets
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asset-harvester: NVIDIA Asset Harvester: The Pipeline That Turns AV Logs Into 3D Assets
A geometry-aware system for recovering camera pose, synthesizing consistent novel views, and lifting them into Gaussian splats for simulation.
12 min read
HyperCoast: Slicing the Infinite Data Cube
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HyperCoast: Slicing the Infinite Data Cube
How a specialized Python stack is turning NASA’s hyperspectral firehose into an interactive, browser-based laboratory for coastal science.
8 min read
Point-M2AE: The 3D Masked Autoencoder That Thinks in Pyramids
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Point-M2AE: The 3D Masked Autoencoder That Thinks in Pyramids
A deep dive into how hierarchical masking, token merging, and custom CUDA kernels let a point-cloud model learn shape efficiently without flattening geometry into a plain transformer.
9 min read
SpatialEdit: Teaching Image Models to Move in 3D Without Losing the Picture
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SpatialEdit: Teaching Image Models to Move in 3D Without Losing the Picture
A deep dive into the open-source framework that pairs synthetic geometry, a VLM-guided diffusion model, and a benchmark built to measure spatial fidelity instead of just visual plausibility.
10 min read
The Illegal Graphics Card: Inside pure-css-shaders-art
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The Illegal Graphics Card: Inside pure-css-shaders-art
How Cheng Lou turned the browser's layout engine into a GPU, bypassed GitHub's Markdown filters, and built a zero-JavaScript shader using pure CSS.
6 min read
cq_warehouse: The Hardware Store Hidden Inside CadQuery
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cq_warehouse: The Hardware Store Hidden Inside CadQuery
A Python library that turns standards tables, fasteners, bearings, and threads into parametric solids, then reaches beneath CadQuery to patch in the missing industrial stuff.
9 min read
The Illusion of Zero Dependencies: Unpacking liquid-effect-animation
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The Illusion of Zero Dependencies: Unpacking liquid-effect-animation
How a Next.js component uses runtime script injection and hidden 2D canvases to deliver high-end WebGL shaders without touching your package.json.
6 min read
simready-foundation: SimReady Foundation: NVIDIA’s Compiler for Physical Reality
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simready-foundation: SimReady Foundation: NVIDIA’s Compiler for Physical Reality
How a USD-based standard turns 3D assets into simulation-ready contracts, catches physics bugs before runtime, and tries to end the chaos of incompatible units, joints, and runtimes.
8 min read
Alkahest rebuilds Destiny 2's renderer in Rust
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Alkahest rebuilds Destiny 2's renderer in Rust
A clean-room tool that parses Bungie's packages, interprets Tiger Engine shader logic, and reassembles the frame for study.
10 min read
opencap-monocular: OpenCap Monocular: The Biomechanics Engine That Learns the Floor
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opencap-monocular: OpenCap Monocular: The Biomechanics Engine That Learns the Floor
Inside the smartphone-video pipeline that decides whether the camera moved, whether the person is on a treadmill, and how to stop feet from skating before exporting OpenSim-ready motion files.
9 min read
Deimos-Public: the Marathon tool that treats leaks like a bug
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Deimos-Public: the Marathon tool that treats leaks like a bug
A binary-first archive for artists and archivists, built to surface unreleased game data without normalizing spoilers, panic, or copycat leak culture.
7 min read
openai/openai-sora-sample-app: What Happens After You Click Generate
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openai/openai-sora-sample-app: What Happens After You Click Generate
A reference app that turns long-running video generation into a usable workflow with prompt optimization, starter images, polling, local persistence, and remix forks.
12 min read
petri-dish-nca: When Neural Cellular Automata Start Competing for Space
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petri-dish-nca: When Neural Cellular Automata Start Competing for Space
Sakana AI's PD-NCA turns growth into an ecosystem, where multiple learners fight, adapt, and survive inside one shared dish.
11 min read
stretchystudio: Stretchy Studio: The Browser Editor That Treats 2D Characters Like Deformable Meshes
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stretchystudio: Stretchy Studio: The Browser Editor That Treats 2D Characters Like Deformable Meshes
A look at the WebGL2 pipeline, Draft Pose workflow, and stencil-buffer tricks behind a new kind of animation tool for layered art.
8 min read