Type a Picture

About WordsEye

WordsEye™ allows you to literally Type a Picture™ by creating 3D graphics from text descriptions. It's a new way to turn your imagination into images and to create memes, greeting cards, or cartoons - and a new medium to communicate and express yourself online.

WordsEye allows you to create scenes by describing how objects and characters are placed in 3D space, and what they look like (size, color, posture, lighting...). WordsEye offers thousands of 3D models for free use and premium models for purchase.

Once complete, a scene can be viewed from any camera angle, given a title, and shared on social media. WordsEye Scenes can easily be changed using language, so your friends can interact with your scenes, re-post them, and engage in visual banter.

WordsEye bridges the historic gap between verbal and visual expression and can make anyone a 3D artist.

Text-to-Scene Technology

We have been developing WordsEye's proprietary text-to-scene technology for more than a decade, most recently as NSF-funded language processing research at Columbia University.

WordsEye works by parsing text input into a semantic representation which is in turn translated into a 3D scene. This process relies on a large database of linguistic and world knowledge about objects, their parts, and their properties.

These scenes are then rendered into pictures. A large variety of image filters can be applied to rendered scenes to give them a different look and feel.

WordsEye is a web-app that requires no special software or plug-ins. All computation is done on our robust and scalable cloud infrastructure. High-quality images are produced using raytracing on state-of-the art GPU hardware.

Who We Are

WordsEye Inc was founded in 2013, with the goal of making 3D graphics available to everyone on the web by turning research results in language processing and computer graphics into an amazing new product.

Our team of innovators consists of engineers, researchers, marketers, and product designers. We have extensive experience in natural language processing, computer graphics, software product development, web-based services, and business/market strategies. Our world-class board of advisors and our initial seed investor are leaders in entrepreneurship, industry, and academia.

The team participated in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the Columbia Business School and is a member of the Columbia Entrepreneurs Lab. WordsEye won the grand prize at the 2013 New York State Business Plan Competition. We presented as an Alpha Pitch Company at DEMO Mobile 2013 and at the New York Tech Meetup.