Get Started with PyTorch3D in 4 Minutes with Google Colab

Roman Bromidge
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
4 min readFeb 29, 2020

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AI for 3D applications will be the next big thing. We think so and so, apparently, do Facebook who have just released a new add on for their open source deep learning framework PyTorch: the astonishingly named PyTorch3D. It’s surprisingly easy to get started with it, let me show you how.

There are a whole bunch of ways to get involved, have a play, and experiment.

If, like most people, you have yet to pick up a $4000 graphics card you may feel somewhat left out of this frontier. But fortunately, there are a whole bunch of ways to get involved, have a play, and experiment. You may find something exciting! All you need is a computer with an internet connection and a Google account.

I’ll walk you through the process of setting up a Google Colab notebook, installing PyTorch3D in it and running you through a bit of a tutorial to explain some of the things that are going on.

At Kaedim we’re using these same tools to develop and test our product, an AI tool to help digital 3D designers do more of what they love by getting the computer to do the boring stuff.

Step 1: Creating a notebook

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