A developer has ported Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D model to Apple Silicon Macs using PyTorch Metal Performance Shaders, eliminating the NVIDIA GPU requirement. The implementation generates 400K+ vertex meshes from images in ~3.5 minutes on M4 Pro with full setup documentation and MIT licensing. Trade-offs include disabled texture export and ~10x slower sparse convolution versus the original CUDA kernel.
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Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed
TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D now runs natively on Apple Silicon without GPUs, bringing sophisticated 3D mesh generation (400K+ vertices in 3.5 min) to Mac users.
Monday, April 20, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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