Bioinspired strategy creates complex 3D curved structures via programmed shrinkage

The shape of biological structures, ranging from flower petals to the limbs or organs of animals, is often naturally best ...
Fabbaloo

3D Printable Map Service Map2Model Shuts Down After Legal Notices

The popular (and free) website that delivered 3D printable maps is now offline. A statement on Reddit from the developer says: “This is an incredibly difficult message to share. What started as a ...

Single ion maps 3D electromagnetic fields above chips with record sensitivity

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that uses a single ion to detect electromagnetic fields above a surface and ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Maker's Pet kicks off oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you can 3D print yourself

Maker's Pet has launched oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum that owners build themselves.
IEEE

Programmable-Room: Interactive Textured 3D Room Meshes Generation Empowered by Large Language Models

Abstract: We present Programmable-Room, a framework which interactively generates and edits a 3D room mesh, given natural language instructions. For precise control of a room’s each attribute, we ...
GitHub

SplaTAM: Splat, Track & Map 3D Gaussians for Dense RGB-D SLAM

SplaTAM has been benchmarked with Python 3.10, Torch 1.12.1 & CUDA=11.6. However, Torch 1.12 is not a hard requirement and the code has also been tested with other ...
GitHub

Joint 3D Face Reconstruction and Dense Alignment with Position Map Regression Network

This is an official python implementation of PRN. PRN is a method to jointly regress dense alignment and 3D face shape in an end-to-end manner. More examples on Multi-PIE and 300VW can be seen in ...
IEEE

SLIM-VDB: A Real-Time 3D Probabilistic Semantic Mapping Framework

Abstract: This paper introduces SLIM-VDB, a new lightweight semantic mapping system with probabilistic semantic fusion for closed-set or open-set dictionaries. Advances in data structures from the ...