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IDOL: Open-Source Image-to-3D Goes Viral
The distilled IDOL Turbo generates 3D Gaussians from a single image in 0.75s; a follow-up ComfyUI pipeline from the same model went viral for producing 3D assets in 45s on 8GB VRAM.
2026-11-04 ~ 2026-11-05 · 2 episodes · 4 posts
Episode 1 · IDOL Turbo distills single-image 3D generation to 0.75 seconds (2026-11-04, 2 posts)
IDOL Turbo, a distilled version of speridlabs/idol released on Hugging Face under Apache-2.0, generates 3D Gaussians from a single image in just 5 steps (0.75 seconds), with quality approaching the original model.
- IDOL Turbo Lands on Hugging Face: 5-Step Image-to-3D Rivals the Original — Illustrious_Row_9971 · 2026-11-04
- Idol Turbo distills image-to-3D to 5 steps: ~0.75s for up to 1M Gaussians on H200 — _akhaliq · 2026-11-04
Episode 2 · Idol Image-to-3D Model Trends on Hugging Face (2026-11-04, 2 posts)
Comfy-Org's Idol, an open-source (Apache-2.0) image-to-3D pipeline fine-tuned from TripoSplat, generates 3D models from a single image in about 45 seconds on 8GB VRAM and is trending on Hugging Face.
- Open-source Idol model turns a single image into 3D in 45s on 8GB VRAM — Promptmethus · 2026-11-04
- Image-to-3D model Idol trends on Hugging Face via Comfy-Org — Comfy-Org · 2026-11-05