While these projects take plenty of time and creativity on their own, [César Galera] shows us a different way to make 3D printed art by turning 2D images into fully textured 3D prints.

In traditional 3D modeling, the process often begins with a concept sketch or a 2D image. Designers then have to manually interpret these flat visuals and reconstruct them in a 3D environment.

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It's already proven effective for 2D image recreation, and according to MarketTechPost, researchers at Stanford have put it to work creating powerful 3D images. The researchers call this AI model ...

It is trained on around 1 million 3D objects from the Objaverse and MVImgNet datasets in an end-to-end manner to predict a neural radiance field (NeRF) directly from the input image.

They repeat this process many times until the result is realistic. Chan’s team used features from existing high-resolution 2D GANs and added a component that can convert these images for 3D space.

Lenovo ThinkVision 27 3D Monitor: Coming soon to Lenovo With its built-in rendering engine, this 27-inch IPS monitor has the ability to convert 2D images and video into 3D.