From 'Slapped On' to 'Grown In': Hitem3D 2.0 Bets Integrated Texture Generation Can Make AI 3D Assets Actually Printable

dragon-shaped asset where scales, horns, and whiskers follow the underlying geometry rather than appearing as a flat overlay.

Flexible material mimics octopus skin with nanoscale color and texture transformations

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...
Nanowerk

Nanostructured material changes color and texture like an octopus

Researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential ...
Hackaday

Image-Generating AI Can Texture An Entire 3D Scene In Blender

[Carson Katri] has a fantastic solution to easily add textures to 3D scenes in Blender: have an image-generating AI create the texture on demand, and do it for you. It’s not perfect — the odd door or ...