Go from inspiration to physical objects with Gemini. With Canvas in Gemini, you can code a custom app to design a vase and change its mathematical parameters to visualize it in 3D. Then, export it as an .STL file for 3D printing to watch your ideas take shape.

inspiration to STL without leaving the chat is kinda wild

exporting straight to stl is seriously useful

from a chat to a print in one go. the printer is the slow part now lol

Cool

I've needed this

gonna be a rough year for etsy vase sellers

When will Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking be available globally on iOS? It’s been more than 24 hours! @grok can you help with that? Make an educated estimation.

Go inspiration from our app 😅

turning ideas into objects is getting way too smooth now

The video was made with Gemini too 💀

Generating the STL in seconds is amazing but I am still going to spend three hours calibrating my printer for it.

Canvas lets you tweak parameters and export a 3d vase. google is trying to turn users into their own graphic designers so they don't have to pay adobe $40/mo anymore. smart math

the interesting part isn't "ai can make a vase app," dedicated tools already did that well, it's that gemini is generating the actual app on demand instead of you finding and learning an existing one. that's a meaningfully different interaction, disposable custom software instead of a general tool you master

We here.

the .stl export is the part that gets me, because canvas stops being a sketchpad and turns into a tiny parametric-to-physical pipeline. changing the vase’s math, then printing it, is exactly the kind of tech rabbit hole i’d keep on

You know what we need

@grok о чем переведи

but we have apps like those

gemini canvas feels empowering because parametric design turns ideas into objects

The STL export is the detail that makes this more than a visual demo. Going from a parameter change in Canvas to a physical print turns iteration into something you can actually hold—curious how reliably the mesh handles more complex shapes.

@grok tarjima qil

Gemini finally delivering useful features