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LEGO-Anything: Coding Agents for 3D Scene Reconstruction

A 3D scene reconstructed from a single image is most useful when represented not as a rendering or a fixed 3D output, but as an explicit scene program whose execution yields a scene that can be inspected, edited, and…

By Li, Shi, Dong +7arXiv

Score██████░░░░5.5

Key numbers

  • 53.4% indoor and 39.6% outdoor
  • 62.7% in overall score

VerdictCompetent work. Briefs at most.

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Abstract

A 3D scene reconstructed from a single image is most useful when represented not as a rendering or a fixed 3D output, but as an explicit scene program whose execution yields a scene that can be inspected, edited, and queried. We present LEGO-Anything, an Image-to-Code framework in which a coding agent iteratively writes and executes Blender code, inspects scenes and renderings, and revises the program. To evaluate end-to-end scene recovery, we introduce LEGO-Bench, a simulator-grounded benchmark with 208 images from 104 diverse indoor and outdoor scenes. LEGO-Bench separately scores artifact validity, visible-surface geometry, and rendered appearance. Its simulator-grounded design enables extensibility and precise automatic evaluation. Among evaluated agents, GPT-6-astra achieves the strongest overall results, with 53.4% indoor and 39.6% outdoor scores, yet substantial gaps remain between delivering valid scene artifacts and faithfully recovering scene geometry and appearance. Analysis of agent construction trajectories reveals three recurring issues: weak scene initialization, regressive edits during iteration, and unreliable self-evaluation. These findings motivate LEGO-Plugin, a training-free harness plugin for more controlled iterative scene construction, which improves all six evaluated models, with relative gains of up to 62.7% in overall score. Finally, we test whether reconstructed scenes can represent natural images and support vision tasks. In LEGO-World, we derive object detections, instance masks, and relative depth as deterministic queries on scenes reconstructed by GPT-6-astra. These readouts show non-trivial performance across all three tasks but fall well short of specialized vision models, suggesting that program-constructed scenes from current coding agents are a promising but not yet sufficiently precise representation of natural images.

Xirui Li, Peng Shi, Mingwen Dong, Sheng Zhang, Zhuoyan Xu, Dongkyu Lee, Shuaichen Chang, Yi Xiang, Lin Pan, Jiarong Jiang

The editor's rubric

Heuristic review

DimensionLevelWeightWhat that level means
Leverage███░░ 324%A method or resource many groups across the field will adopt within a year.
Magnitude███░░ 318%Large gain: roughly 2x, or a clear new state of the art on a hard, unsaturated problem.
Evidence███░░ 314%Solid: multiple benchmarks or cohorts, ablations, fair baselines, released code or data.
Novelty██░░░ 216%A new combination of known ideas.
Trajectory██░░░ 218%Some room to improve with obvious engineering.
Stakes██░░░ 210%Benefits a professional community (practitioners, clinicians, engineers).

Editor’s rationale

Heuristic triage from title and abstract text only, not a reading of the paper. Cues found: method (we propose); breadth (many tasks); gains (relative gain); verification (multiple benchmarks); stakes (general AI).

How the score was computed

rank-2026-09-29

Score██████░░░░5.5

Score = 10 × (65% × adjusted merit / 10 + 25% × attention + 10% × freshness)

Merit
5.1 / 10
Weighted rubric, evidence-gated.
Adjusted merit
4.5 / 10
Shrunk toward the desk prior by editor confidence (40%).
Attention
89%
Citations, upvotes, points, mentions.
Freshness
42%
Half-life decay since publication.
  • Citations0 (reference 15, via semantic-scholar, Oct 1, 2026, 02:16 UTC)
  • Influential citations0 (reference 3, via semantic-scholar, Oct 1, 2026, 02:16 UTC)
  • Hugging Face upvotes105 (reference 25, via hf-daily, Oct 1, 2026, 02:16 UTC)

The record

  • Reviewed by heuristic-v2 on Sep 30, 2026, 11:05 UTC. Paper type: theory.
  • BRIEF, No.8 in the Artificial Intelligence edition of October 1, 2026.