Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video

Post by poly2it » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 8:59 PM UTC

cubefox wrote: post #80

tel wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gaussian splatting is a way to record 3-dimensional video. You capture a scene from many angles simultaneously and then combine all of those into a single representation. Ideally, that representation is good enough that you can then, post-production, simulate camera angles you didn't originally record. For example, the camera orbits around the performers in this music video are difficult to imagine in real space. Eve…

> Gaussian splatting is a way to record 3-dimensional video. I would say it's a 3D photo, not a 3D video. But there are already extensions to dynamic scenes with movement.

Post by klondike_klive » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

meindnoch wrote: post #78

pleurotus wrote: post #8

Super cool to read but can someone eli5 what Gaussian splatting is (and/or radiance fields?) specifically to how the article talks about it finally being "mature enough"? What's changed that this is now possible?

1. Create a point cloud from a scene (either via lidar, or via photogrammetry from multiple images) 2. Replace each point of the point cloud with a fuzzy ellipsoid, that has a bunch of parameters for its position + size + orientation + view-dependent color (via spherical harmonics up to some low order) 3. If you render these ellipsoids using a differentiable renderer, then you can subtract the resulting image from th…

Post by nodra » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

joshcsimmons wrote: post #76

nodra wrote: post #2

Never did I think I would ever see anything close to related to A$AP on HN. I love this place.

Why is that “cool” or desirable?

Post by callbacked » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC

nodra wrote: post #2

Never did I think I would ever see anything close to related to A$AP on HN. I love this place.

Post by dostick » Sun, Jan 18, 2026, 9:15 PM UTC

darhodester wrote: post #39

Hi, I'm David Rhodes, Co-founder of CG Nomads, developer of GSOPs (Gaussian Splatting Operators) for SideFX Houdini. GSOPs was used in combination with OTOY OctaneRender to produce this music video. If you're interested in the technology and its capabilities, learn more at https://www.cgnomads.com/ or AMA. Try GSOPs yourself: https://github.com/cgnomads/GSOPs (example content included).