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AI experiments, AI+Art crossovers, and curated external articles about artificial intelligence and creative technology.
OctaneRender 2026 — OTOY Just Made Gaussian Splats First-Class Citizens in a Path Tracer
Every other splat renderer rasterizes. OTOY built the first one that ray-traces. In Octane 2026 a Gaussian…
Photoshop 27.6 — Adobe Just Smuggled Gaussian Splatting Into Every Designer’s Toolbox
Look at the changelog for Photoshop 27.6 and you’ll see the usual Adobe blockbuster moves: Reflection Removal,…
SpAItial Echo-2 — The German Lab That Just Out-Splatted Marble, HunyuanWorld and Lyra With One Drop
Four months after their debut model, a small German lab nobody outside Twitter had heard of just…
Mickmumpitz Just Killed the Render Farm — AI Renderer 2.0 Turns Rough Blender Layouts Into Cinematic Footage Locally
If you’ve ever spent a Sunday night watching a 12-second Cycles render trickle frame by frame, this…
Dioramix — Olli Huttunen Just Built the Storytelling Tool Gaussian Splats Have Been Begging For
Here is the dirty secret of the Gaussian Splatting boom: we got incredibly good at capturing the…
Power Foam — One Radiance Field That Rasterizes AND Ray Traces at the Same Damn Time
Since 3DGS dropped, the radiance field world has lived in two camps that refused to talk to…
Cesium Just Made Gaussian Splats Industrial — 110 Million Splats Streamed Like Map Tiles, To Any Browser
For two years Gaussian Splatting has been the coolest party trick in 3D — photoreal captures that…
Reallusion Headshot 3 — Type a Prompt, Get a Production-Grade Digital Double in Character Creator 5
Yesterday, April 28, 2026, Reallusion shipped Headshot 3 for Character Creator 5 — and quietly delivered the…
Project ETERNAL — Antigravity, CyArk and Splatica Just Turned Pompeii Into a Gaussian Splat (And They Want You to Splat the World)
A 249-gram drone flies invisibly above the ruins of Pompeii, capturing 8K 360° footage of every fresco,…
NVIDIA AI Blueprint × Microsoft TRELLIS — Type a Scene, Get 20 Game-Ready Assets in Blender
Type “cyberpunk night market.” Wait two minutes. Get twenty production-ready 3D assets, sorted, named, and dropped straight…