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

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

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You... you must have been quite some 5 year old.

Some things would be literally impossible to properly explain to a 5 year old.

If one actually tried to explain to a five year old, they can use things like analogy, simile, metaphor, and other forms of rhetoric. This was just a straight-up technical explanation.

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

#152

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I think it's because they already had proven capture hardware, harvest, and processing workflows. But yes, you can easily use iPhones for this now.

Looks great by the way, i was wondering if there’s a file format for volumetric video captures

https://developer.apple.com/av-foundation/

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/spatial/

Edit: As I'm digging, this seems to be focused on stereoscopic video as opposed to actual point clouds. It appears applications like cinematic mode use a monocular depth map, and their lidar outputs raw point cloud data.

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

#153

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Not everything has to be. Sometimes, an artist's style or a particular track just hits a particular vibe one may be after or need in a particular moment. I'm not a fan of this music either but I could imagine hearing it while I'm studying or coding. Don't trash something just because it's not your vibe. Not everything has to be Mozart.

I mean, it's not like I trashed it or compared it to Mozart—I even made sure to include "interesting, stimulating, or tonally remarkable" in an attempt to preempt that latter pushback.

But even if I did, why can't I? It's fine to call some music shit. Just like you can call my opinion shit.

Policing dissenting opinions and saying everything is equally worthy of praise are two sides of the same coin sliding in the vending machine that sells us the sad state of affairs we live in today.

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

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> 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.

See 4D splatting.

Brain dances!

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

#156

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).

Great work! I’d love to see a proper BTS or case study.

Stay tuned

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

#157

Hello! I’m Chris Rutledge, the post EP / cg supervisor at Grin Machine. Happy to answer any questions. Glad people are enjoying this video, was so fun to get to play with this technique and help break it into some mainstream production

Grin Machine knocked this out of the park!

Great job, Chris and crew!

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

#158

Hello! I’m Chris Rutledge, the post EP / cg supervisor at Grin Machine. Happy to answer any questions. Glad people are enjoying this video, was so fun to get to play with this technique and help break it into some mainstream production

Awesome work, incredibly well done! What was the process like for setting the direction on use of these techniques with Rakim? Were you basically just trusted to make something great or did they have a lot of opinions on the technicalities?

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

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Desirable because it’s a rare culture + tooling combo. I’m into both and HN is one of the few places I would see them come together. So yeah, “cool”

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Right, that's how culture works. There's no universal definition.

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

#160
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Desirable because it’s a rare culture + tooling combo. I’m into both and HN is one of the few places I would see them come together. So yeah, “cool”

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"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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