http://simonwillison.net/2024-12-13T18:46:13+00:00Simon Willison2024-12-13T18:46:13+00:002024-12-13T18:46:13+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/13/model-viewer/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://modelviewer.dev/">&lt;model-viewer&gt; Web Component by Google</a></strong></p> I learned about this Web Component from Claude when looking for options to render a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlTF">.glb file</a> on a web page. It's very pleasant to use:</p> <pre><code>&lt;model-viewer style="width: 100%; height: 200px" src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/cors-allow/2024/a-pelican-riding-a-bicycle.glb" camera-controls="1" auto-rotate="1" &gt;&lt;/model-viewer&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here it is showing a 3D pelican on a bicycle I created while trying out <a href="https://www.blendergpt.org/">BlenderGPT</a>, a new prompt-driven 3D asset creating tool (my prompt was "a pelican riding a bicycle"). There's <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42398913#42400537">a comment</a> from BlenderGPT's creator on Hacker News explaining that it's currently using Microsoft's <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/TRELLIS">TRELLIS model</a>.</p> <p><model-viewer style="width: 100%; height: 200px" src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/cors-allow/2024/a-pelican-riding-a-bicycle.glb" camera-controls="1" auto-rotate="1"></model-viewer></p> <script type="module" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/model-viewer/3.3.0/model-viewer.min.js"></script> <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://gist.github.com/simonw/64a33cd6af819674defddb92f5f2e713">Claude: options for displaying a glb file on a web page</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/3d">3d</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-components">web-components</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude">claude</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/blender">blender</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle">pelican-riding-a-bicycle</a></p>

2023-09-08T15:29:10+00:002023-09-08T15:29:10+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/8/blender-on-pypi/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://pypi.org/project/bpy/">bpy - Blender on PyPI</a></strong></p> TIL you can “pip install” Blender!</p> <p>bpy “provides Blender as a Python module”—it’s part of the official Blender project, and ships with binary wheels ranging in size from 168MB to 319MB depending on your platform.</p> <p>It only supports the version of Python used by the current Blender release though—right now that’s Python 3.10. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/kolibril13/status/1699790198505353259">@kolibril13</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pypi">pypi</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/blender">blender</a></p>