When you’ve got been studying my articles on Medium, you already know I wish to run experiments utilizing AI for artistic endeavors and write about my experiences. I’ve lined areas like picture technology, artistic writing, and music composition. For the primary time, I expanded my analysis into the third dimension. I seemed into utilizing industrial and open-source AI instruments to create new bodily objects and printed them utilizing a 3D printer. On this article, I’ll present you the steps I took to design and print 4 completely different 3D meshes utilizing varied industrial and open-source instruments. You will see all 4 objects within the 3D Gallery within the appendix.

Within the following sections, I’ll stroll you thru 4 experiments I ran utilizing completely different instruments for 3D-object technology and present the outcomes. The primary was utilizing industrial instruments: Midjourney for making a 2D picture and a web site referred to as 3dMaker.ai for extracting a 3D mesh, a file that accommodates the geometry for show and printing in 3D. The second experiment used an open-source AI mannequin from OpenAI referred to as Form-E [1]. The third used an open-source mannequin referred to as MVDream [2], and the fourth used a mixture of MVDream and one other open-source undertaking referred to as threestudio [3].

In all circumstances, I began with a textual content immediate, generated a 3D mesh, and used Blender, an open-source desktop software, to change and clear up the 3D mesh. I then used desktop “slicer” apps, Ultimaker Cura and PrusaSlicer, to organize and preview the 3D meshes earlier than printing them at native libraries. In case you are concerned about printing these objects, you possibly can test them out on my Thingiverse profile web page.

After strolling by means of the 4 examples, I’ll contact on the societal affect and ethics of producing 3-D objects with AI. I’ll focus on insurance policies of possession rights from the assorted providers and methods. And I’ll finish with a abstract of what I discovered from my experiments.