All the world's buildings available as 3D models for urban and climate research

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first ...

Hyper3D’s Advanced 3D Model Generator Addresses Critical Production Challenges for Professional Creators

The production of high-quality three-dimensional assets has long been constrained by the technical expertise and time investment required to create professional-grade models. Hyper3D, the flagship ...
Oregon Business

3D Experience: Exhibit Showcases Architectural Models of Portland’s Past, Present and Future

A single architectural model can represent hundreds of hours of work and hard-won solutions to complex design problems. It’s one reason organizers say an exhibit of architectural models has struck a ...
Engineering News-Record

Architectural Design with SketchUp: 3D Modeling, Extensions, BIM, Rendering, Making, and Scripting, 2nd Edition

Architectural Design with SketchUp, Second Edition, is the leading guide to this incredibly useful tool for architects, interior designers, construction professionals, and makers. With easy to follow ...
TMCnet

MicroCloud Hologram Inc. Develops Quantum-Driven 3D Intelligent Model

MicroCloud Hologram Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLO), ("HOLO" or the "Company"), a technology service provider, developed a quantum-driven 3D intelligent model, which is a 3D modeling and image processing system ...
archpaper

A detailed look at New York’s community of independent and in-house model makers

A display wall at Radii in Hoboken, New Jersey, shows the range of models built by the shop since it opened in 2000. (Christopher Payne/Esto) Amid all of the ways to make an architectural model ...
ArchDaily

From Sketch to 3D Model: A Tool for the Architectural Concept Design

In the 1956 competition to design the city of Brasilia, Lucio Costa's proposal differed significantly from his competitors'. In contrast with the detailed plans and well-designed perspectives of the ...
EDN

Making your architecture ready for 3D IC

The landscape of IC design is experiencing a profound transformation. With the physical and economic limits of conventional two-dimensional scaling, the industry is rapidly embracing three-dimensional ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models

The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt.
Fast Company

This tool solves one of the biggest problems in architecture: Making everyone happy

When architects and urban planners design buildings and neighborhoods, they’re balancing many different priorities. Each project has certain requirements, the clients have economic goals, and the end ...

An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

The Chinese video game giant Tencent is now building some of the world’s best 3D AI models. This could have implications far ...