TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D now runs on Mac (Apple Silicon) - no NVIDIA GPU needed
Summary
A developer ported Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D model to run on Apple Silicon Macs by replacing CUDA-only dependencies with PyTorch MPS equivalents, enabling offline 3D mesh generation without requiring NVIDIA GPUs.
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