Yet, despite the successful transition from 3D to 2D, the barrier separating 2D and 1D has been significantly more challenging to overcome.

Materials are 2D textures overlaid on the 3D meshes like a skin. And NVIDIA 3D MoMa’s estimate of how the scene is lit allows creators to later modify the lighting on the objects," NVIDIA explains.

“This is due to the unique 2D quantum confinement inside the 1D nanowire as well as the greatly improved crystal quality.” The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Science . Dou ...