Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to API to acquire PBR materials from any portrait image for relighting
With SwitchLight API, you can extract surface normal map, albedo map, roughness map & remove background of any portrait image and use it in your own 3D pipeline that supports physical-based-rendering (PBR). 1. Surface Normal API: Surface Normal maps represent in which direction each pixel is pointing towards in 3D space, and without surface normal, things will look super flat and unrealistic. 2. Albedo API: Albedo map removes any shadows or highlights from the original image and represents what the subject would look like under very flat white lighting. Also known as diffuse map or base…
SwitchLight API extracts physical-based rendering materials from portrait images for use in 3D pipelines. The tool generates surface normal maps that define pixel directionality in 3D space, albedo maps that show… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. API to acquire PBR materials from any portrait image for relighting launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2018 · tylermw.com · its alternatives →
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3D Textures▲209Free textures to add depth and realism to your renders
2021 · icons8.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all, You've probably seen projects that add objects to an image from a style or text prompt, like InteriorAI (levelsio) and Adobe Firefly. The prevalent issue with these diffusion-based inpainting approaches is that they don't yet have great conditioning on lighting, perspective, and structure. You'll often get incorrect or generic shadows; warped-looking objects; and distorted backgrounds. What is Fill 3D? Fill 3D is an exploration on doing generative fill in 3D to render ultra-realistic results that harmonize with the background image, using industry-standard path tracing, akin to…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AI Shadows▲497Generate realistic shadows for professional-looking photos
2023 · pixelcut.ai · its alternatives →
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Krita's v4.2+ RGBA brushtips let you paint with dimensionality, and it's a technology that Photoshop doesn't have (≖‿ゝ≖) It lets the creator do things like emulating light direction, making brushstrokes look 3D. I used them to make a set of metallic brushes. If there are any FOSS artists around, feel free to test them out. (p.s. Yes, I am learning Github so I probably made repository mistakes - apologies in advance lol)
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Blender addon for generating synthetic ground truth data for Computer Vision applications - GitHub - Cartucho/vision_blender: A Blender addon for generating synthetic ground truth data for Computer Vision applications
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm the co-creator and maintainer of https://aframe.io/ and long time Web 3D graphics dev. Super excited about new techniques to author / render / represent 3D. Spark is a an open source library to easily integrate Gaussian splats in your THREE.js scene I worked with some friends and I hope you find useful. Looking forward to hearing what features / rendering techniques you would love to see next.
2025 · sparkjs.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We're Ben and Izak, founders of Repaint (YC S23). Repaint is like Figma, but for creating real websites. It has panning, zooming, and dragging elements around. The settings closely follow html/css. We think an open canvas is a big improvement over other website builders. Everything is easier: styling, consistency, responsiveness… But making it work was hard! We thought HN would appreciate the tech behind it: - A custom WebGL rendering engine (w/text, shadows, blurs, gradients, & opacity groups) - A partial implementation of the css spec - A custom text editor & text shaper…
2024 · repaint.com · its alternatives →
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RadianceKit▲95Turn photos into 3D Gaussian Splats on your Mac
Jun 2026 · radiancekit.de · its alternatives →
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PBR Texture Generator Online. Free & Open Source & Private.
Jan 2026 · normalmap.ai · its alternatives →
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Create beautiful moving gradients on Framer and Figma
2023 · shadergradient.co · its alternatives →
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This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API that renders glTF scenes. It supports many materials, textures, material & normal mapping, and heavily relies on multiple importance sampling to speed up convergence.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MAI-Image-2.5▲241Hey HN I’ve been experimenting with different image generation tools for months — but I kept running into the same problems: slow generation, repeated outputs, and limited artistic control. That’s why I built MAI-Image-1, Microsoft’s latest AI image generation model designed for creators, designers, and developers who need fast, realistic results without sacrificing flexibility. What makes MAI-Image-1 different: Ultra-realistic rendering — it accurately captures light, texture, and natural shadows. Lightning-fast generation — create detailed images in seconds. No style lock-in — experiment…
Jun 2026 · microsoft.ai · its alternatives →
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Google released an API in May to get fetch 3D Tiles of anywhere on Earth. Using this in standard 3D engines like Blender is tricky because (1) the tiles are in a geographic coordinate system (2) you get a lot of little tiles at varying quality levels I wanted to simplify this so all you need to do is get an API key, select a map region and a zoom level, and get one combined glTF file that you can throw into any engine. Especially if you're just prototyping and want to see how this data looks in your engine before investing in figuring out all the nuances of the API & coordinate system. (Note…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A data aware UI components library for building realtime maps - reactivemaps/README.md at master · appbaseio/reactivemaps
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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3D-to-photo is an open source tool for Generative AI product photography, that uses 3D models to allow fine camera angle control in generated images. If you have 3D models created using the iOS 3D scanner you can upload them directly on to 3D-to-photo and describe the scene you want to create. For example: "on a city side walk" "near a lake, overlooking the water" Then click "generate" to get the final images. The tech stack behind 3D-to-photo: Handling 3d models on the web: @threejs Hosting the diffusion model: @replicate 3D scanning apps: shopify,Polycam3D or LumaLabsAI
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · anfractuosity.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I’m excited to share this open-source community mashup showing the power and possibility of combining 3D Gaussian splat scans with traditional mesh-based 3D tiles maps in the browser. As you've probably seen on HN a bunch lately, Gaussian splats are a new method to allow custom 3D scans of scenes and objects [1] and Google Maps 3D Tiles API are the same 3D buildings and street views your familiar with in Google Earth or Google Maps, and recently they’ve been made available for inclusion in web apps. Combining splats + 3d map mixes highly detailed real-world custom micro-scans with…
2024 · maps-and-splats.glitch.me · its alternatives →
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Angle 4▲146Create presentations with a library for Figma, Sketch and XD
2021 · angle.sh · its alternatives →
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GPU Raytracer from scratch in C++/CUDA. Contribute to jan-van-bergen/GPU-Raytracer development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · mjmdavis.com · its alternatives →
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