Autodesk Unveils Project Bernini, A New Generative AI Tool That Creates 3D Shapes [Video]

Autodesk unveiled a new research project today called Project Bernini, with the mission of developing generative AI models that can quickly generate functional 3d shapes, which can then be further refined by modelers.

Here is the accompanying video introduction:

How does Bernini work? Bernini can generate multiple functional variations of a 3d shape from a variety of inputs including a single 2d image, multiple images showing different views of an object, point clouds, voxels, and text. More details can be found in this blog post on the Autodesk website.

Who created the model? Bernini was an in-house project developed by scientists and specialists at Autodesk AI Lab, which is a division within Autodesk Research. A research paper that contributed toward this work was published earlier this year by the AI Lab in collaboration with the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

How was the model trained?Autodesk trained the model on ten million 3d shapes—a composite dataset made up of publicly available data, …