Shap-E
Shap-E generates 3D assets directly as implicit-function parameters, renderable as textured meshes or NeRFs, in seconds from text.
A conditional diffusion model over encoder-produced implicit-function weights; faster than the earlier Point-E and higher quality in OpenAI's comparison. OpenAI released code and weights, then did not continue the 3D line.
- Date
- Wednesday, 3 May 2023
- Lab
- OpenAI
- Kind
- paper
- Access
- open weights
Only the arXiv abstract (v1 2023-05-03) was opened; the open-weights and 'no follow-up' statements are from memory.
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