Once the stuff of science fiction, 3D printers are now mainstream tools for creation and innovation. These devices, which transform digital blueprints into physical objects, have dramatically evolved ...

Making 3D figurines using Google Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) has never been easier, courtesy of easy prompts and high-end features in Google AI Studio. From seeing yourself as a collectible, ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com. Reading this during the day? Then you've caught me testing gear and editing reviews of laptops, desktop PCs, and tons of other ...

The internet never fails to surprise us with quirky and creative trends, and the latest one taking over social media is the “Nano Banana” craze. If you’ve scrolled through Instagram, TikTok, or X ...

Abstract: Methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for surface reconstruction face challenges when applied to large-scale scenes captured by UAV. Because the number of 3D Gaussians increases ...

This is the official implementation of the T-PAMI 2025 paper "PonderV2: Pave the Way for 3D Foundation Model with A Universal Pre-training Paradigm". PonderV2 is a comprehensive 3D pre-training ...

Abstract: This paper provides a survey of the latest developments in visual signal coding and processing with generative models. Specifically, our focus is on presenting the advancement of generative ...

TL;DR: Feed-forward 3D and 4D scene generation from a single image/video trained with synthetic data generated by a camera-controlled video diffusion model. Full Abstract: The ability to generate ...