A new approach called LEGO-Anything turns single photos into editable Blender code for 3D scenes, with GPT-6 Astra leading an accompanying benchmark at up to 53 percent reconstruction accuracy, accord…
Ortus AI released RightWayUp, an Apache-2.0 licensed 360° image rotation model that predicts how far an image is rotated (0–359°) with a confidence score and abstains when it cannot determine which wa…
Developer Ben Houston released git-dedup, a Git wrapper that shares one local object pool across worktrees and clones via Git alternates, cutting his Git object storage by 70% — from 35.5 GB to 11.1 G…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 produced a cleaner Blender render than OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol in a head-to-head 3D bake-off, though Claude Opus 5.5 took 1 hour 7 minutes and cost $27.86 versus GPT-6 Sol's 48 …
A developer benchmarked ten LLMs on 30 Blender Python scripting tasks across Blender 3.6, 4.2, 4.5 and 5.0, grading 1,190 answers by actually launching each target Blender build with `blender -b --fac…
A developer demonstrated mcp-for-blender, an open-source MCP server that connects LLMs such as Claude and Codex to Blender, letting users build and modify 3D scenes through natural-language prompts. T…
A developer built bpy-compass, a version-aware Blender Python assistant that answers scripting questions for a user-selected Blender release by drawing on a Sanity Context Knowledge Base of official r…
Felix Rieseberg redesigned his personal homepage using roughly 60 parallel Claude threads running entirely in the cloud on Opus 5.5, without writing or running any code locally, opening GitHub, or mak…
A developer has merged the CHARFORGE character generator and 3D game engine into a single system that supports four distinct paths for getting actors into a game — morph-based human sculpting, importe…
Developer ArtemPodloboshnikov released Mixer, an open-source 3D editor that generates GLB/GLTF models from text prompts using local LLMs via a built-in llama-server. The MIT-licensed Tauri v2 applicat…
A developer used Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next to reverse engineer and port the 1989 strategy game War of the Lance to modern browsers via a Three.js rendering engine, completing the work in about a week with l…
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro on September 21, 2026 under an MIT license, claiming the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 with a score of 46.32 and tying xAI's Grok 4.7. The o…
Researchers released WROP (World Reasoning with Object Permanence), a data infrastructure of 150 hand-designed cognitive-science-inspired tasks across six cognitive categories, built on Blender genera…
A practical guide details how AI 3D generators convert text prompts or reference images into textured 3D meshes through input parsing, mesh generation, and texture projection, producing standard forma…
Meshy released a ChatGPT plugin on September 20th that lets OpenAI's Astra model call Meshy's 3D generation and Auto Split segmentation services and return manipulable 3D assets inside a conversation.…
Nvidia has increased its involvement in Linux gaming, according to a forum post that cites the company's long history in Linux and Unix professional rendering and compute work, including a 2004 Sun Mi…
An AI system identified in the post as GPT-6 Astra converted the 1977 text adventure game Zork into a playable 3D action-adventure game and, in a separate task, produced a 45-minute animated book trai…
OpenAI's self-reported results show GPT-6 Astra reaching 95.9% mean voxel IoU on the University of Virginia's BenchCAD benchmark, against 83.3% for GPT-5.6 Sol and 84.3% for Claude Fable 5.1 under a m…
Livio_dev released Celestium Intel Cleaner V4 AUTO Background, a Windows optimization utility for Intel Arc, Iris Xe, and UHD GPUs that performs automatic background cleaning, shader cache reset, VRAM…
A Hacker News post asks whether the real world is "computational all the way down," citing Stephen Wolfram's claim that the universe is computational and Guillermo Rauch's tweet that "Everything is co…