3d-modeling on S Anand

Editing images with code and AI

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:32:47 +0530

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.

For 2D and UI: AI can generate SVG logos, HTML/CSS pages, Figma layers, app, etc. For animation and 3D: AI can generate Lottie JSON, Blender scripts, USD scene graphs, shader code, or 3D programs.

This means design, marketing, and product teams are immediate prospects. Instead of static mockups, they’ll get editable logos, landing pages, design prototypes, motion graphics, onboarding animations, etc.

Emerging industries are robotics, manufacturing, architecture, gaming companies. Agents can build 3D chairs, machine, room, or robot with the right materials, joints and constraints.

I’ve seen some examples of this approach. Pavan used Blender MCP to build an entire building campus solely by prompting Claude. Also to design a mug from scratch. His approach is called VIGA: Vision-as-Inverse-Graphics Agent.

If you see anyone creating visual assets of any form - manually, or with AI as pixels - please remember this approach.

Pavement drawings in perspective

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:00:00 +0000

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 is free

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +0000

Sketchup (from Google) is now available for free download. It’s a 3D modelling tool.

Download Squad

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Download Squad. A bunch of free (or cheap) software that will give you many of the tools used by special effects houses.

3D search engine

Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:00:00 +0000

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

fr08

Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:00:00 +0000

What is .fr08?