This is pretty cool. You can now buy gaussian splats printed in resin.
Okay but how is the little guy supposed to breathe????
>>109121929cool stuff
>>109121883>>109121929How is this "gaussian splats" and not just random 3d scanned stuff? I remember one big deal with gaussian splats was how well it handled reflections. To make reflections here you need some reflective real world pigment, that will reflect as well as the pigment would without gaussian splats? I don't get it.
It's the simple things that I like.
>>109121985It just is, okay? Stop asking questions.
>>109121985by printing splats?if it manages to print individuals splats thin enough that should work but also i doubt it can manage anything beyond very subtle effectsomething like recorded mirror reflection wouldnt be possible
>>109122015This isn't the most flattering pic they used. Sure, it has some details, but it looks like freaking rubber, color wise. Especially compared to the image next to it.>>109122025So it prints the splats instead of converting it to mesh first, cool. But I'd still like to see something like a car. Most vids I see on gaussian splats show off things with reflections, because they come "for free" unlike 3d meshes which make them computationally very expesive. Because right now, it seems like just 3d mesh with good res.
>>109122044Don't get me wrong, it looks good, but just not like such a big deal. Like incremental progress. "Gaussian splats" seem mostly like some gimmick marketing term here than anything.
>>109122044i think fur is a very good way to demonstrate currently limited capabilitythey probably know the shit's not impressive when like, they print a fancy jet black car
Use case?
>>109122064Imagine carrying a photorealistic 3d print of your favorite actress's vagina in your pocket wherever you go.
>>109122078What if my favorite actress is a child?
>>109122056>currently limited capability>they probably know the shit's not impressive when like, they print a fancy jet black carExactly. That's what I'm thinking. They're picking flattering stuff to show off. Which is a sign this isn't such a breakthrough as OP made it seem. And this reply >>109122015 makes it seem like I caught him red-handed.Indeed the fur is impressive, but I also think this has to do with printing inside a resin as opposed to freestanding structure. Idk. It is nice, I"m not saying it isn't, but it's just not a breakthrough.Maybe I'm just dull.
>>109121985"Reflections" exist in gaussian splats because you can only see splats from certain angles.
>>109121985>>109122025>>109122044>>109122052>>109122111Sounds like some kind of volumetric printing. Impressive, but likely nothing to do with gaussians. They may be converting them into a voxelized 3D volume and sending that to some expensive high tech resin printer. Again, impressive, but nothing new. This is 2yo tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazoNt6qPG4&t=866Otherwise, how the fuck would they encode a Gaussian splat’s spherical harmonics into pigments? That would need some extreme wizardry, so I bet it’s just volume objects like the ones you can render in real time in Blender (as in OpenVDB format: data stored on a sparse voxel grid, where each cell can hold density, temperature, color data, etc.)
>>109122374>Otherwise, how the fuck would they encode a Gaussian splat’s spherical harmonics into pigments?They don't need to encode anything. This exists because of the shape of the splat. Assuming they can get them thin enough so that you can't really see them from the side, the spherical harmonics will be there automatically.
>>109122372Real life stuff can't be seen "only from certain angles", hence my utter suspicion of the whole ordeal. I'm pretty sure you can make holographic lenses like portals and shit with gaussian displays on computers that you can't just 3d print.>>109122374>impressive, but nothing new>I bet it’s just volume objectsIt's what I'm thinking as well.
>>109122407The effect might still work even if you can see the splat slightly from side-on. It probably doesn't need to be completely invisible. I'd imagine printed pigment can get pretty thin.
>>109122417Maybe. Could be possible. But the fact that OP didn't showcase a single product like this makes me think they aren't there yet and can only do solid colors that don't even shine specular highlight much.
>>109122417all you can get is basically this without SH
>>109122467Spherical harmonics are baked into the structure of the splat itself. Even if the pigment splats are visible from side-on, there will still be spherical harmonics, you will just get ghosting that makes it not look as clean.
>>109121892osmosis
>>109122484Just to clarify, this is assuming they're somewhat splat shaped. If they're just blobs then it won't work at all. In that case, you'll obviously get an average of every viewing angle from any viewing angle, which probably won't look very good.
wtf is a gaussian splat?
>>109122522It's like a point cloud but every point is a fuzzy oval angled in a certain direction instead.
>>109122522it's when a bee falls out of a hive and goes "splat" into magma, creating a fossil
>>109121883>try to apply to machine vision job>"applicant must have 10 years of experience with gaussian splatting">technique only took off 3 years agoi hate this gay ass job market
>>109122467Lenticular/parallax was cool as fuck. They should have kept studying this for glasses-less 3D displays. They tried TVs with multiple viewing angles that were technically hard to do, instead of going to single viewer setups like computer monitors for gaymers and coomers were the money's really at. It would be better than VR by miles, but instead we got just the 3DS and it died out.
>>109121883i predict a booming 'dead pet' service.
but can you create a hologram using gaussian splat? what 3d printing an object in resin bath, using spinning uv laser to make it without layers
>>109122795*what about
>>109122795i think it is technically possiblenot sure if the compute and all the optics bench hassle is worth or not tho
>>109122015Their site is fucking shit. Why is the gallery section full of this AI slop? I want to see actual examples of what the prints will look like.
BzzzzzzzBrrrrrrr(trapped in ice cube)
>>109121883WTF LET HIM OUT
>>109121883bee's are not technology.
>>109121883You mean a point cloud?
use case?
>>109121883I think it might be fake and gay
>>109121883I think the intension of this technology is>you can scan shit as a gaussian splat and then we can turn it into a printable model (and print it for you)But the way the OP phrased it, and possibly the way they're trying to market it (I haven't checked the website to verify), sounds like "we are making gaussian splats IRL!!", which is nonsense because they're tiny mathematical particles that would be insanely fiddly to recreate physically (and possibly even infeasible with current technology, or at least not at commercial scales) for zero advantage.
>>109121883I used to have an entire collection of random shit in these glass/resin boxes. How is it any different/new?
>>109121883id gaussian her splat until i fill her up with my resin if you know what i mean
>>109121883My grandma was collecting various figurines and trinkets and had few of these insects in crystals, yellowed due to age.
>>109124702no, my dear tech illiterate incel
>>109124613Kek.
>>109124954>fucking insects>>>/d/
>>109124931This thread is fucking retarded and OP is a low functioning autist. I already can buy bees encased in resin with the local pot distributor, Don't care for random trash dioramas in resin when I can buy or make the diorama in the first place.
>>109121985splats dont do reflection, they duplicate the scene throgh the mirror for example. so you only need space in the resin to hold the mirror dimension, if you will.
If I'm not mistaken, gaussian splats are a function of the viewing angle. They change depending on view. This is a 3d printed resin model derived from a splat.
These aren't cheap. 30 x 30 x 50 mm is like $200.
