Vincent Woo

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SuperSplat The open source platform for editing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.

If you want to see more examples of Gaussian splats that people are making, check out PlayCanvas' new gallery superspl.at!

One reason I made this is because I think Gaussian splats are the future and I think we can be embedding these into all kinds of immersive experiences. I think newsrooms should be making and using these for storytelling even in same-day beat reporting.

There are a lot of fun annotations embedded in the scene, and also one little easter egg. Let me know if you find it.

The biggest challenge I had was trying to color match images taken on four different sensors at different times of day, which gsplat's bilateral grid feature does a very good job of handling. Pictured is an early failure from PostShot.

To build the model, @daylen.bsky.social
and I flew drones around the tower and took thousands of files. I then somewhat laboriously aligned these images in RealityCapture

Self-Organizing Gaussians Compact 3D scene representation by organizing Splat attributes into locall smooth 2D grids.

I implemented a JS decoder for a recent compression scheme for splats called Self Organizing Gaussians (fraunhoferhhi.github.io/Self-Organiz...) that leverages classic image codecs. It brings the size of the scene down to under 30MB!

The experience is all on the web (vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tower) and it should work well on phones, too.

Have you ever wanted to see Sutro Tower up close? Now you can! I'm releasing a very high quality model of the tower that you can easily fly through on your own, thanks to very cool developments in Gaussian splatting 🧵...

BART

thanks for the shoutout

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