Terrain / World Generation¶
3D Generation
Open Source¶
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Code2Worlds: Empowering Coding LLMs for 4D World Generation Discovered by AI
2026
A framework that formulates 4D dynamic world generation as language-to-simulation code generation, utilizing a dual-stream architecture to separate object generation from hierarchical environmental layout.
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Dream-Cubed Discovered by AI
2026
A large-scale 3D diffusion model trained on billions of Minecraft voxel cubes to generate interactive, controllable, and diverse 3D environments and biomes.
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Imagine a City: CityGenAgent for Procedural 3D City Generation Discovered by AI
2026
A natural language-driven framework for hierarchical procedural generation of high-quality 3D cities. It leverages LLM agents to generate executable programs for urban layouts and supports interactive natural language editing.
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MetaEarth3D Discovered by AI
2026
A spatially scalable generative modeling framework designed for world-scale 3D generation, capturing geographic environments across thousands of kilometers.
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Sat2City v2: Native 3D City Asset Generation from a Single Satellite Image Discovered by AI
2026
A framework for generating explicit, textured 3D city assets from a single satellite image using cascaded sparse-voxel latent diffusion conditioned on satellite-derived height maps.
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World Reconstruction From Inconsistent Views Discovered by AI
2026
A method that reconstructs consistent 3D worlds from video diffusion models using non-rigid alignment to resolve inherent 3D inconsistencies in generated sequences.
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WorldWeave: Growing Persistent Geometric Worlds for Video Generation Discovered by AI
2026
A world generation framework that decouples world-state maintenance from visual rendering by combining continual elevation-map generation with agent-guided scene organization and stitching to build an expandable explicit 3D world state.
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CityDreamer4D Discovered by AI
2025
A compositional generative model for unbounded 4D cities that decouples static background elements (buildings, roads) from dynamic foreground elements (moving vehicles). It utilizes a Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) layout generator and traffic simulation to produce highly realistic, multi-view consistent, and temporally coherent 4D urban environments.
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Earthbender: An Interactive System for Stylistic Heightmap Generation using a Guided Diffusion Model Discovered by AI
2025
An interactive sketch-based terrain authoring system that utilizes a guided diffusion model to generate high-quality, stylistic heightmaps from user sketches and control inputs.
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EarthCrafter: Scalable 3D Earth Generation via Dual-Sparse Latent Diffusion Discovered by AI
2025
A framework for large-scale 3D Earth and terrain generation that decouples structural and textural synthesis. It utilizes dual sparse 3D-VAEs to compress high-resolution geometric voxels and 2D Gaussian Splats into compact latent spaces, enabling efficient generation across vast geographic scales.
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EmbodiedGen Discovered by AI
2025
A generative 3D world engine designed to build physically realistic, accurately scaled, and simulation-ready environments for embodied AI tasks.
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Geodiffussr: Generative Terrain Texturing with Elevation Fidelity Discovered by AI
2025
A flow-matching pipeline designed to synthesize text-guided terrain texture maps that strictly adhere to a supplied Digital Elevation Map (DEM). It uses multi-scale content aggregation to inject elevation features into UNet blocks, ensuring global-to-local consistency.
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Infinite Leagues Under the Sea: Photorealistic 3D Underwater Terrain Generation by Latent Fractal Diffusion Models Discovered by AI
2025
A latent fractal diffusion model designed for photorealistic 3D underwater terrain generation. It enables the synthesis of large-scale, visually coherent, and geometrically accurate underwater environments for robotic simulation and virtual exploration.
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MajutsuCity Discovered by AI
2025
A natural language-driven and aesthetically adaptive framework for synthesizing structured 3D cities with controllable layouts and assets.
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MESA Discovered by AI
2025
A text-driven terrain generation model trained on global remote sensing data (Copernicus), enabling high-quality terrain heightmap synthesis from natural language descriptions.
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Sat2City Discovered by AI
2025
A 3D city generation framework that synthesizes detailed, large-scale 3D urban structures and textured meshes from a single satellite image using cascaded latent diffusion.
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TerraFusion Discovered by AI
2025
A latent diffusion model framework that jointly generates terrain heightmaps and textures, capturing the inherent correlation between terrain geometry and surface color.
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Terrain Diffusion Discovered by AI
2025
Introduces Terrain Diffusion and InfiniteDiffusion, a diffusion-based approach for generating infinite, real-time, and coherent terrains. It bridges the fidelity of diffusion models with the properties of procedural noise functions like Perlin noise, offering seamless infinite extent, seed-consistency, and constant-time random access.
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WorldExplorer Discovered by AI
2025
An autoregressive video trajectory generation framework that constructs fully navigable and visually consistent 3D scenes across a wide range of viewpoints.
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WorldGen Discovered by AI
2025
A system that automatically creates large-scale, traversable, and interactive 3D worlds directly from text prompts and images, supporting 360-degree consistent exploration.
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Adaptive Diffusion Terrain Generator (ADTG) Discovered by AI
2024
A novel method that leverages Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models to dynamically expand existing training environments by adding more diverse and complex terrains adaptive to the current policy.
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CityCraft: A Real Crafter for 3D City Generation Discovered by AI
2024
A modular framework for 3D city generation that integrates diffusion transformer layout synthesis, LLM-driven land-use planning, and procedural scene assembly.
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GaussianCity Discovered by AI
2024
A generative 3D Gaussian Splatting framework designed for unbounded 3D city generation. It addresses the computational and storage overhead of NeRF-based methods by scaling 3D-GS to infinite-scale urban environments.
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UrbanWorld: An Urban World Model for 3D City Generation Discovered by AI
2024
An urban world model for automatically creating realistic, customizable, and interactive 3D city environments from OpenStreetMap data or semantic layouts using progressive diffusion-based rendering.
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3D-GPT Discovered by AI
2023
A framework that utilizes large language models (LLMs) for instruction-driven 3D modeling and procedural generation. It positions LLMs as problem solvers that break down 3D modeling tasks into manageable segments and dispatch them to specific procedural generation agents.
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CityDreamer Discovered by AI
2023
A compositional generative model designed specifically for unbounded 3D city generation. It separates the generation of background natural scenes and foreground building objects to handle the structural and stylistic diversity of urban environments.
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CityGen: Infinite and Controllable 3D City Layout Generation Discovered by AI
2023
An end-to-end framework for infinite, diverse, and controllable 3D city layout generation. It uses an auto-regressive out-painting pipeline and a multi-scale diffusion model to generate controllable semantic fields and extend local layouts infinitely.
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InfiniCity: Infinite-Scale City Synthesis Discovered by AI
2023
A modular framework for infinite-scale 3D city synthesis that generates arbitrary-scale 2D bird's-eye-view maps, lifts them to 3D octrees via voxel completion, and renders them using a voxel-based neural renderer.
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Infinigen Discovered by AI
2023
A procedural generator of photorealistic 3D scenes of the natural world, generating everything from scratch via randomized mathematical rules. It offers broad coverage of plants, animals, terrains, and natural phenomena.
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Terrain Diffusion Network: Climatic-Aware Terrain Generation with Geological Sketch Guidance Discovered by AI
2023
A diffusion-based terrain generation framework that incorporates user-guided geological sketches (rivers, ridges, basins, and peaks) and a multi-level denoising scheme to generate realistic, climatic-aware terrains.
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Terrain3D Discovered by AI
2023
A high-performance, editable 3D terrain system for Godot 4 written in C++ as a GDExtension. It features a GPU-driven clipmap mesh terrain, supporting real-time editing, painting, and importing heightmaps from industry-standard tools like Gaea and World Creator.
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TerraForge3D Discovered by AI
2021
A cross-platform, professional procedural terrain generation and texturing tool. It utilizes GPU acceleration and a node-based editor to allow artists to design complex 3D landscapes, apply erosion filters, and generate high-resolution heightmaps and textures.
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FastNoise2 Discovered by AI
2020
A modular node graph based noise generation library using SIMD, C++17, and templates, widely used in game engines for real-time procedural terrain and world generation.
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Infinite Nature Discovered by AI
2020
A method for perpetual view generation of natural scenes from a single starting image, enabling the synthesis of long-range camera trajectories through complex 3D landscapes.
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Proprietary / Industry Tools¶
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World Machine Discovered by AI
2026
A classic, node-based procedural terrain generation software widely used in the game industry to create highly detailed heightmaps, meshes, and textures.
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QuadSpinner Gaea Discovered by AI
2018
A premier industry-standard terrain design tool for VFX, games, and virtual production. It features advanced erosion algorithms, a sophisticated node-based workflow, and procedural tools to craft highly realistic 3D landscapes and heightmaps.
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World Creator Discovered by AI
2017
An advanced, real-time procedural terrain and landscape generator powered entirely on the GPU. It provides rapid erosion simulation, texturing, and direct bridges to major game engines like Unreal Engine and Unity.
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