From Sketch to 3D Model: Building a flower card generator with open source AI

This post details the process of packaging Autodesk's WaLa research model into a production API using Truss. It covers vendoring the model's source code, writing a model wrapper with `load` and `predict` methods, configuring Truss with resource requirements (H100 MIG GPU, system packages like OpenGL libraries) and secrets management, and deploying to Baseten for auto-scaling and caching. The post also outlines the architecture of a web application built around this API, utilizing Netlify for serverless functions, Neon database for storage, and Three.js for a 3D rendering experience.