Jul 12, 2026, 2:00 PM

Local Image to 3D (<2gb RAM, <20s, Apple Silicon, iPhone)

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My swift-mlx/python mlx port of Hunyuan3D-Paint and Hunyuan3D-Shape is finally complete! It's also available as a standalone image to 3D desktop app, the only of its kind for Apple Silicon. Some quick benchmarks in FP16 on my M4 Max: run wall time peak memory hy3d shape (small) 20.9 s ~5.6 gb hy3d shape (large) 22.3 s ~7.3 gb hy3d paint (rgb) 231 s ~38 gb hy3d paint (pbr) 344 s ~

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My swift-mlx/python mlx port of Hunyuan3D-Paint and Hunyuan3D-Shape is finally complete! It's also available as a standalone image to 3D desktop app, the only of its kind for Apple Silicon. Some quick benchmarks in FP16 on my M4 Max:

run wall time peak memory

hy3d shape (small) 20.9 s ~5.6 gb

hy3d shape (large) 22.3 s ~7.3 gb

hy3d paint (rgb) 231 s ~38 gb

hy3d paint (pbr) 344 s ~

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