Why bolt magic rocket boosters onto a horse?

That's like saying we'll add internet browsing and YouTube to Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS.

It's weird, legacy software for a dying modality.

Where we're going, we don't need geometry node editing. The diffusion models understand the physics of optics better than our hand-written math. And they can express it across a wide variety of artistic styles that aren't even photoreal.

The future of 3D probably looks like the video game "Tiny Glade" mixed with Midjourney and Google Genie. And since it'll become so much more accessible, I think we'll probably wind up blending the act of creation with the act of consuming. Nothing like Blender.

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HappyPanacea 4 days ago | parent [-]

> The diffusion models understand the physics of optics better than our hand-written math.

How well will they do with something like creating two adjacent mirrors with 30 degree angle between them with one of them covered with varying-polarized red tinted checkerboard pattern?

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echelon 4 days ago | parent [-]

I don't know. Diffusion is weird and a little uneven.

They do a better job of fluid sim than most human efforts to date. And that's just one of thousands of things they do better than our math.

	▲	topato 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Haha, despite the 1000s of instances where it DOESNT simulate correctly. Very specifically chosen 10000-shot generated videos show somewhat impressive fluid physics... And even then, it MUST be something it's seen before. Diffusion is in NO way modeling physics in a realistic matter, there is not an infinite amount of training data to show all fluid dynamics... Now I know you're too far down the hype rabbit hole. Either that, or you lack a cursory understanding of diffusion models.