Owners Not Renters Field Note · 28 April 2026

Two images, two meshes.
A short field test of TRELLIS.2.

I fed two images into Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 — one a clean product render, the other an out-of-distribution photograph of an architectural model — and let it produce meshes. Generated on the public Hugging Face Space. The source images and the resulting GLBs are paired below; rotate the models to inspect.

Spec. 01 · In-Distribution

Ambient Podcast Player Designed object · controlled lighting

2D · Source PNG · render
AI render of an ambient podcast player: black/teal device with circular speaker, small color screen reading 'Space Exploration', embossed PODCAST lettering and metallic handle.
podcast-player.png render · sRGB
3D · TRELLIS.2 Output GLB · interactive
podcast-player.glb drop generated mesh here
podcast-player.glb loading mesh…
podcast-player.glb drag to rotate
Note

An AI render of a podcast player I'd been imagining: black-and-teal body, a circular speaker face, a small color screen reading Space Exploration, embossed PODCAST lettering, a metallic handle. An in-distribution test — designed object, controlled lighting, the kind of image the model should handle cleanly.

Spec. 02 · Out-of-Distribution

Space Garden Architectural model · organic-meets-engineered

2D · Source PNG · photograph
Photograph of an architectural model: thirty pod-like discs on slender brass armatures splaying outward from a textured central capsule.
space-garden.png photograph · sRGB
3D · TRELLIS.2 Output GLB · interactive
space-garden.glb drop generated mesh here
space-garden.glb loading mesh…
space-garden.glb drag to rotate
Note

The Space Garden, an orbiting greenhouse concept by my friends Ariel Ekblaw (Aurelia Institute) and Thomas Heatherwick (Heatherwick Studio). Thirty pod-like discs splay from a textured central capsule on slender brass armatures. An out-of-distribution stress test — organic-meets-engineered geometry I was sure TRELLIS.2 had never seen in training.