Hey, if it helps, I’d be happy to print and send you a few? Just send me the links to the model(s) you’re interested in. It probably won’t be as high quality as the ones printed that by company, but it’d cost you nothing aside from a few bucks for shipping.
Sort of. As a test, I took an image like this:
And put it into meshy.ai (or use my referral link for first month for $1). I think you can upload and preview the results before paying, you just can’t download until you do. 3daistudio.com is another similar service.
Anyway, with a click or two, Meshy turned it into this 3D mesh:
I didn’t have to do anything special. It just one-shotted it successfully.
Here’s another one of my cat:
Also one-shotted.
So at least the 3D model-from-picture part of the workflow works very well with the right specialist models (not a LLM like ChatGPT).
However, the resulting mesh was too detailed to 3D print well. Not just in terms of polygon count (which is easy to decimate), but topology (too much detail that’s hard to turn into filament-sized g-code, not to mention being a nightmare to create auto-supports for) and color (gradients like that would kill any non-toolchanger system, and even after palette-ization, it would still be a lot of nozzle swaps). I don’t know if any model is yet smart enough to then turn a photorealistic 3D mesh into a simpler object designed for 3D printing… maybe? I haven’t looked much yet.
But anyway, if you have any simpler objects you want to turn into a mesh, it might be worth a shot? Feel free to send me a pic and I’ll try for ya.