On: GenChess

[medhir]

so when I first tried the demo I wondered, “are these pieces generated meshes?” thinking about the ability to zoom / pan the board in 3D. The high fidelity of the pieces would seemingly be more in the domain of 2D image generation given current gen AI standards, which would be my educated guess as to why there’s only a handful of views.

[CSMastermind → medhir]

https://imgur.com/a/ROBPwM1

I'm pretty sure they're doing 2D image generation. Just look at the way it outlines some of the pieces.

[lelandfe → CSMastermind]

No, it's 3D. It's some kind of automatic background removal. You can see this falling apart in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42252127

That "outline" is just an artifact of less-than-perfect removal. Here's another one: https://imgur.com/a/zTQubPb

[CSMastermind → lelandfe]

3D in what sense? You think they're doing actual mesh generation?

[lelandfe → CSMastermind]

Misunderstood your comment. It is 2D as you've said, my above being evidence of that.