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Pixal3D: Pixel-Aligned High-Fidelity Image to 3D Generation

Pixal3D turns any 2D image into a pixel-perfect 3D asset in seconds — free, open source, and MIT licensed.

What is Pixal3D?

Pixal3D is a high-fidelity image-to-3D generation model that explicitly projects pixel features into a 3D volume, eliminating the spatial guesswork common in canonical-space generators. Developed by researchers at Tsinghua University and TencentARC, and accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026, it produces geometry and PBR materials with near-reconstruction-level faithfulness to the input view.

Key Features

  • Pixel-perfect geometry — pixel features are projected into the 3D volume instead of relying on canonical-space estimation, so the output matches the input view
  • PBR materials — base color, normal, and roughness textures, exported as GLB meshes
  • Single or multi-view input — feed one image, or multiple views for higher fidelity
  • Open source (MIT) — fully free, self-hostable, no API costs

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Generate pixel-perfect 3D assets from any 2D image in seconds — it's free and open source.

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