TRELLIS

Is this in the same vein as TRELLIS? https://github.com/Microsoft/TRELLIS I've been trying to use this to generate 3d character models from images. I am enjoying 3d printing these models to mess with my kids. Not much of what I've found runs on local models but I'm always on the lookout. Meshy.ai (mentioned here) offers really nice generation but the cost adds up quickly.

> All our model, code, and dataset will be publicly released to facilitate reproduction and further research. Will take some time to publish. The TRELLIS 1 dataset is public here: https://github.com/microsoft/TRELLIS/blob/main/DATASET.md

Since they explained that they used an open source model and system https://github.com/Microsoft/TRELLIS, it will be possible for other developers who want to start similar businesses to launch basic competitors within a week or so, if they are ambitious about it. I spent about 10 minutes with my agent running Claude 3.5 Sonnet New and generated most of the core code already: https://github.com/runvnc/img2blender Although I haven't tested that and don't actually know if it will work.

I think that's a fair point that not every company owes the end user a recipe for how to reproduce their product. However, it's also a fair question on Hacker News. Again, fair if they chose not to answer it.. but many people here are programmers. Since they explained that they used an open source model and system https://github.com/Microsoft/TRELLIS, it will be possible for other developers who want to start similar businesses to launch basic competitors within a week or so, if they are ambitious about it. I spent about 10 minutes with my agent running Claude 3.5 Sonnet New and generated most of the core code already: https://github.com/runvnc/img2blender Although I haven't tested that and don't actually know if it will work.

Understandable. For context, the GPT in the name comes from an earlier version of this project (https://github.com/gd3kr/blendergpt) which actually used GPT-4 to write python scripts that Blender would then execute. This would allow GPT-4 to program operations like instantiating primitives with the Blender Python API given only a text prompt (ex. "create 50 cubes") The new version of BlenderGPT (lets call this v2) doesn't use an any autoregressive token prediction for the actual mesh generation part, so I understand why it sounds dishonest. I really just chose to stick with the name because artists really didn't seem to care about how the meshes are generated, and the term GPT became closely associated with AI. As for the technical stuff, I've been working on BlenderGPT v2 for the past several months, and until a week ago, i had been usin