We love a nice optical illusion (if you hadn't noticed), and happily the internet is full of people creating little gems to trick our eyes. Anyone wanting to create their own won't want to miss this ...

A new computational approach, built on data-driven techniques, is making it possible to turn simple 2D sketch into a realistic 3D shape, with little or no user input necessary. A new computational ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today's physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D ...

VC firm Index Ventures took a flier on Jordan Taylor?s Vizcom in a $20 million round, knowing the former Nvidia industrial designer and art school grad had little business experience. But Index bet he ...

There are admittedly many differences from architecture school and working in the profession. One major difference is that while in school, people are in a mode of exploration, and any and all tools ...

On social media, people have been asking how the 3D piece was made, and Roque's shared some of the details of his process. The house was drawn on geometry, while the leaves were drawn on spheres to ...

A new artificial intelligence can transform simple sketches of a face into fabricated photorealistic pictures. The AI, called DeepFaceDrawing, was invented by researchers at the Chinese Academy of ...

A week-long attempt explores how challenging it is to create art inside a virtual environment using a high-end VR headset.

Google has released a new app that will make it much easier to create that VR experience you've whipped up in your head -- and it won't cost you a single cent. The big G's "Blocks," now out for the ...

ScaffPlan for SketchUp allows scaffolders to design, plan, and present projects in 3D, generate gear lists and streamline workflows with accuracy and efficiency.