From "slapped on" to "grown in": Hitem3D 2.0 bets integrated texture generation can make AI 3D assets actually printable

Hitem3D 2.0 adds a portrait mode described as "strand-level fidelity," aiming to reconstruct head shape and facial proportions structurally while preserving fine detail like hair flow direction, brows ...
Digital Production

Procedural sawdust: EC Wood Grain hits Blender

Independent Blender developer Eric Charles has released EC Wood Grain, a Geometry Nodes setup that procedurally generates ...
Hackaday

Image-Generating AI Can Texture An Entire 3D Scene In Blender

[Carson Katri] has a fantastic solution to easily add textures to 3D scenes in Blender: have an image-generating AI create the texture on demand, and do it for you. It’s not perfect — the odd door or ...
AZOM

Texture Analysis: Its Importance for 3D Printed Food Development

3D printers — machines that can fit on a desktop and create 3D objects from plastics, metals, and other raw materials — can do just about anything. High-precision jets pump out custom medical implants ...