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  "abstract": "Most contemporary three-dimensional (3D) generative approaches represent shape synthesis as direct geometric prediction, iterative denoising, or optimization of a scene representation. This paper proposes Phase-Transition Morphogenesis (PTM), a conceptual framework for generating 3D geometry through simulated material transformations, particularly melting, liquid redistribution, cooling, and resolidification. Rather than treating the final geometry as the primary object of generation, PTM treats geometry as an outcome of an evolving material state. The proposed framework couples a temperature field, a phase-state field, material transport, solidification dynamics, and a geometry decoder. An initial material configuration undergoes localized phase transitions under controllable thermal and boundary conditions. The resulting material distribution is converted into a 3D surface or another geometric representation. The framework is intended to support the generation of irregular, history-dependent shapes inspired by molten wax, cast metals, and melting or refreezing ice. A differentiable surrogate may be used to learn mappings from conditioning variables to transformation trajectories, while a physics-based solver provides explicit evolution constraints. This paper formalizes the proposed architecture, state variables, governing objectives, training strategy, and evaluation protocol. PTM is presented as a research hypothesis rather than a validated generative model. Its potential contribution is the organization of phase-transition trajectories as a controllable mechanism for 3D shape synthesis. Establishing novelty and effectiveness requires comparison with phase-field simulation, material-point methods, thermomechanical graphics, and existing physics-informed 3D generative approaches.",
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      "name": "Jincheng Zhang",
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  "published": "2026-10-25",
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  "title": "Phase-Transition Morphogenesis: A Physics-Inspired Framework for Three-Dimensional Generation Through Melting and Resolidification",
  "title_text": "Phase-Transition Morphogenesis: A Physics-Inspired Framework for Three-Dimensional Generation Through Melting and Resolidification",
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