CVAIGRDec 9, 2025

WonderZoom: Multi-Scale 3D World Generation

arXiv:2512.09164v11 citationsh-index: 15
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This addresses the limitation of existing 3D world generation models that cannot produce coherent multi-scale scenes, enabling interactive multi-scale 3D creation from a single image.

The paper tackles the problem of generating 3D scenes with contents across multiple spatial scales from a single image, achieving significant outperformance over state-of-the-art models in quality and alignment.

We present WonderZoom, a novel approach to generating 3D scenes with contents across multiple spatial scales from a single image. Existing 3D world generation models remain limited to single-scale synthesis and cannot produce coherent scene contents at varying granularities. The fundamental challenge is the lack of a scale-aware 3D representation capable of generating and rendering content with largely different spatial sizes. WonderZoom addresses this through two key innovations: (1) scale-adaptive Gaussian surfels for generating and real-time rendering of multi-scale 3D scenes, and (2) a progressive detail synthesizer that iteratively generates finer-scale 3D contents. Our approach enables users to "zoom into" a 3D region and auto-regressively synthesize previously non-existent fine details from landscapes to microscopic features. Experiments demonstrate that WonderZoom significantly outperforms state-of-the-art video and 3D models in both quality and alignment, enabling multi-scale 3D world creation from a single image. We show video results and an interactive viewer of generated multi-scale 3D worlds in https://wonderzoom.github.io/

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