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Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by 9rx »

fourside wrote: post #40
gd3kr wrote: post #31

Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash. BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to…

Sorry to sound like a party pooper but this project gives off strong “fake it till you make it” vibes. Most AI projects I’ve seen share some type of information on how they work, yet this is completely devoid of it. Is this a new approach to mesh generation or is it using existing tooling? Then you’ve got the “we think it’s really good” line when it’s really just you. Like, why the hand waviness, the use of “GPT” whe…

> Like, why the hand waviness, the use of “GPT” when it doesn’t apply.

While recognizing your earlier complaint of not having details of how it works, is there some reason to think it doesn't work using a generative pre-trained transformer? If we had to make an assumption about how it works, that would be my assumption. It is the go-to tool for these types of problems.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by gd3kr »

fourside wrote: post #40
gd3kr wrote: post #31

Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash. BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to…

Sorry to sound like a party pooper but this project gives off strong “fake it till you make it” vibes. Most AI projects I’ve seen share some type of information on how they work, yet this is completely devoid of it. Is this a new approach to mesh generation or is it using existing tooling? Then you’ve got the “we think it’s really good” line when it’s really just you. Like, why the hand waviness, the use of “GPT” whe…

Understandable. For context, the GPT in the name comes from an earlier version of this project (https://github.com/gd3kr/blendergpt) which actually used GPT-4 to write python scripts that Blender would then execute. This would allow GPT-4 to program operations like instantiating primitives with the Blender Python API given only a text prompt (ex. "create 50 cubes")

The new version of BlenderGPT (lets call this v2) doesn't use an any autoregressive token prediction for the actual mesh generation part, so I understand why it sounds dishonest. I really just chose to stick with the name because artists really didn't seem to care about how the meshes are generated, and the term GPT became closely associated with AI.

As for the technical stuff, I've been working on BlenderGPT v2 for the past several months, and until a week ago, i had been using a custom pipeline I built borrowing and re-implementing bits of Unique3D (https://wukailu.github.io/Unique3D/) and combining it with optimized models (flow matching diffusion models etc) for intermediate steps (text to image generation). My optimizations reduced inference time from >2 minutes to only about 20 seconds. This is the model used in this demo i shared: https://x.com/gd3kr/status/1853645054721606100

And then Microsoft released Trellis (https://github.com/microsoft/TRELLIS), and it seemed to leapfrog my model's capabilities on most things. Integrating it into the pipeline wasn't too hard and so I went forward with it.

All of this is just to say that there really was a lot of effort put into the core pipeline, and the landing page was mostly an afterthought. Actively working on a more comprehensive one that covers all the points I talked about.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by Nightloaf »

To everyone in this thread criticizing their project, what have you built and shared recently? Have you contributed anything to HN lately besides negativity?

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by terminalbraid »

takinox2 wrote: post #43
terminalbraid wrote: post #3

"Try it out for free!" Demands a google account, as if my personal info is somehow worthless.

the person who developed just mentioned how its for cost minimisation purposes. know about the things before you mindlessly bring someone down.

I know exactly what it's for and if you read all my comments before you mindlessly try to bring someone down, my complaint isn't with needing an account, it's saying you can use this for "free" unqualified. Not even "free with account". It's "free with and only with a google account".

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by ben_w »

para_parolu wrote: post #52
cbartlett wrote: post #48

Blender is a registered trademark, I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with blender. I'm not sure GPT is safe or even correct either.

Bestbuy is full of equipment with Blender in name. How they do it?

Same way Tesco gets to be full of apples without a licence from the record company or the phone company with an attached computer division.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by bogwog »

takinox2 wrote: post #39
bogwog wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the exact same thing, especially considering how bare bones the site/app is. It's as if someone rushed to turn that into a subscription-based app as quickly as possible. I wouldn't even be surprised if the app itself was AI generated!

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Are you OP's mom or something?

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by heyheyhouhou »

Just FYI you should avoid using the name Blender in your product

From https://www.blender.org/about/logo/

"In short – if you want to start a company or website related to Blender services, avoid using the name Blender in it. You can use it as a secondary tagline though – such as “Awesome Company Inc., the Blender specialists”. Same goes for forks of the Blender software, give it a new name and create a unique brand that way. The latter is also enforced by the GNU GPL, which explicitly excludes brand names from the freedom."

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by SubiculumCode »

gd3kr wrote: post #31

Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash. BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to…

The name is unacceptable. I literally thought this was a project by Blender. You are asking to get sued to oblivion.

Re: BlenderGPT

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Post by SubiculumCode »

griomnib wrote: post #56
para_parolu wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bestbuy is full of equipment with Blender in name. How they do it?

They aren’t software, Blender foundation likely has exclusive use in that domain. I’m guessing if it was litigated it would come up, but that they’d prevail.

And this is not even just about software in a general sense, it's literally software that creates the same product: 3d models. Absolutely asking for trouble.
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