Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
Creative
3d scanning and gaussian splatting
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26 positive, 59 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 29 critical, out of 115 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Execution: 9 for, 18 againstIdea: 7 for, 4 againstPerformance: 2 for, 7 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Visually stunning and beautiful splat detail
From 3 comments
Wow this is a time killer... ended up here: https://superspl.at/scene/ff1d0393 beautiful!
ivolimmen on HNGaussian splats look really good from a distance, but as soon as you zoom in, they really fall off a cliff :/
voidUpdate on HNThis is so beautiful. Am I crazy for saying I kinda wanna cry seeing this strawberry?
FrogHire on HN
Degrades gracefully into a dreamy look
From 2 comments
Beautiful. What I love about gaussian splats is the way they degrade - instead of a hard cutoff or LoD changing spheres into cubes etc., they get increasingly "dreamy" - the…
Tade0 on HNYeah, it's an incredibly cool effect. Reality breaking down into fog and frosted glass and paint smudges and slivers of northern lights and all the dandelion fluff. Even…
ACCount37 on HN
Objections
Internal artefacts, reflections and blurry bottom
From 3 comments
It definitely looks impressive. But something looks off: the red area around the "seeds" is pushed towards the center of the strawberry - or that at least the outer most layer is…
painted-now on HNIs it me, or does the backside of that berry not look too good?
NoSalt on HNWhat happened to the bottom of that poor strawberry?
mgaunard on HN
Poor performance or crashes on some browsers and devices
From 3 comments
Really terrible performance in Chrome, I'm getting between 10-15fps. What's the matter?
tantalor on HNWord of warning to mobile users, this website completely crashed my Firefox instance on Android.
stuxnet79 on HNThis doesn't work at all for me (Linux desktop, tried with Firefox and Chrome). I only see "fullscreen-extended blurry thumbnails" of the splats.
bestouff on HN
Splat files are very large compared to meshes
From 1 comment
4meg: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/strawberry-dd6a424807614544835c8cc4529d6f0d vs 48meg Splats make pretty pictures but they are 10x the data for pretty much anything I've…
socalgal2 on HN
Requests
Explain how the capture setup works
From 2 comments
Lovely! How was the mechanical setup to ensure that all those shots are consistent, and how long did it take?
brazzy on HNCan you show the setup? (Can we do a Gaussian Splat of the setup of the photograph for the Gaussian Splat of the Strawberry?)
a1o on HN
Dynamic lighting support for splats
From 2 comments
As I have learned about Gaussian Splatting just a few weeks ago, I have (perhaps funny/naive/stupid) question: is there any progress or at least theoretical chance to have…
ArekDymalski on HNI’m impressed by Gaussian Splatting and I love these kind of demos, but I have a noob question - can they respond to lighting?
monkpit on HN
Questions
Can splats be animated or deformed?
From 2 comments
Ah the timeless joy of falling through the floor geometry. Seriously though - it's breathtaking. The first guy who figures out the bridge between splats and dynamism - animation,…
lopsotronic on HNThat's just animation like an animated GIF: a series of static frames. What's more interesting is animation in the sense of deformation, as in skeletal/skinned meshes. These…
cubefox on HN
How to handle focus stacking artefacts
From 2 comments
My intuition is that in theory focus stacking should not be necessary as preprocessing step for 3dgs (or photogrammetry). Does anyone know if there is any recent developments in…
zokier on HNThis is an interesting question. There has been some attempt to model the camera better than just a pinhole camera, that could work. https://dof-gaussian.github.io/…
danybittel on HN
Alternatives named
Sketchfab polygon mesh models
From 1 comment
4meg: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/strawberry-dd6a424807614544835c8cc4529d6f0d vs 48meg Splats make pretty pictures but they are 10x the data for pretty much anything I've…
socalgal2 on HN
KIRI Engine
From 1 comment
What? KIRI Engine makes splats. I always wondered what 3DGS might mean. Yes. I knoweth what "splats" are: They are splats of fuzzy blobs on the display surface.
timonoko on HN
Apple ml-sharp
From 1 comment
Also interesting: https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp Apples model to generate Gaussian splats from a single image. Takes about 30 seconds on an M1 Pro. It falls apart once you…
sovok on HN