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We've been writing a lot about Gaussian splatting recently. This high-fidelity alternative to photometry is a relatively new technique for turning 2D photos or video into 3D scenes.
Gaussian splatting can be used to capture accurate lighting and reflections as well as geometry. Now researchers have just described a new tech could mean you don't even need to capture the images or video for gaussian splats yourself. ActiveSplat is an autonomous tool that walks its way around an indoor space and produces a realistic and accurate 3D representation with incredible efficiency.
The hybrid map representation makes use of both dense information about the environment and a sparse abstraction of the space, using sparse topology for efficient viewpoint sampling and path planning while also using view-dependent dense prediction to select viewpoints,"facilitating efficient decision-making with promising accuracy and completeness.
While triangle-based meshes have traditionally been the way to represent objects in 3D via photogrammetry , splats are based on volume.
Gaussian splatting allows real-time photo realism and direct editing and the ability to re-light them. Since the tech is so new, there are still many potential applications that have yet to be developed, including in the integration of 3D with VR and AR, and GUI-based production pipelines, like Postshot in beta, are only just starting to emerge.Daily design news, reviews, how-tos and more, as picked by the editors.
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