The five infrastructure gates behind crawl, render, and index

Where do AI systems lose confidence in your content? Discovery, selection, crawling, rendering, and indexing hold the answer.

This Absurdly Complex Star Destroyer Model May Be the Most Detailed Ever Created

It has 172,340 pieces and just under 1.4 billion triangles, and it induced a panic attack in our copy of Blender.
The Times-Tribune

Bank objects to Scranton’s petition for conservatorship over blighted house

SCRANTON — A bank holding two mortgages on a blighted home at 25 New York St. opposed the city’s petition to acquire and ...

Nano Banana 2 Fully Tested : Text Rendering & In-Image Translation Features

Google Nano Banana 2 adds in-image translation and stronger text rendering with full aspect ratio control; it supports up to ...

Tagshop AI Expands AI Ad Creation With Kling 3.0, Seedance Models, New Templates, and Upcoming AI Ad Clone Feature

Tagshop AI’s Major Upgrade Transforms AI Video Creation Into Faster, Smarter, Studio-Quality Ad Production at Scale for ...

Google's Nano Banana 2 takes aim at the production cost problem that's kept AI image gen out of enterprise workflows

Nano Banana 2 occupies exactly the middle ground where most enterprise workloads actually live. For IT decision-makers who've ...
IEEE

Inverse Rendering of Translucent Objects using Physical and Neural Renderers

Abstract: In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment illumination ...

Altia Announces Custom 2D Materials for Altia Design GUI Tool Chain

New feature provides pixel-level control for dynamic drawing and asset manipulation in Altia Design. By bringing ...
IEEE

Quant-NeRF: Efficient End-to-End Quantization of Neural Radiance Fields with Low-Precision 3D Gaussian Representation

Abstract: Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has been widely investigated for high-quality 3D object rendering based on captured 2D images. Previous research works have continuously improved the rendering ...
insider.si.edu

Rendering of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome

Click to open image viewer. This media is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. For more information ...