Andreessen Horowitz published an interesting article titled The Next Frontier of Visual AI Is Code. Here’s the summary. A lot of our work is visual: ads, slides, dashboards, logos, videos, architecture, etc. We can generate visual output either as: Pixels (like Nano Banana a photo), or as Code (like Claude generating an SVG) Code is more powerful: AI can inspect the output and improve fast in a loop: Code > Render > Inspect > Revise. ...
These are pavement drawings. They are NOT 3D objects. But it’s hard to believe. (Even the shadows are perfect.) See more at Julian Beaver’s site. Comments Abbie 9 Oct 2006 12:00 pm: hey these are cool drawing they actualy look 3-D and like the come right out of the ground alex meneses 9 Oct 2006 12:00 pm: UNBELIEVABLE……AMAZING…..WISH I CAN SEE YOUR DRAWINGS IN PERSON….
Sketchup (from Google) is now available for free download. It’s a 3D modelling tool.
Download Squad. A bunch of free (or cheap) software that will give you many of the tools used by special effects houses.
A 3D search engine from Princeton. Quite an interesting attempt. I’m not sure what to do with the result of the search, though. via missing matter
What is .fr08?