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Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Incredible. I may be the only one in the dark, but until this moment I had no idea 3D printing at this high a fidelity was possible. It looks like a real bee. Last I knew, the best 3D prints still looked like hardened play dough

It's different kinds of printers. That's a resin printer - pretty high-end one. I'm not getting that result on my Bambu P1S.

But how does resin do colors?

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's different kinds of printers. That's a resin printer - pretty high-end one. I'm not getting that result on my Bambu P1S.

But how does resin do colors?

One approach is to just print CMYK resin like an inkjet printer (and then cure it with UV).

Do that hundreds or thousands of times and you eventually get Z height.

Look up the EufyMake E1 for a consumer/prosumer version.

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Incredible. I may be the only one in the dark, but until this moment I had no idea 3D printing at this high a fidelity was possible. It looks like a real bee. Last I knew, the best 3D prints still looked like hardened play dough

Same. This is insane, I had no idea!

There's nothing I personally want to bring, but these would make AMAZING gifts, cool things for your desk/bookcase, etc.

There have got to be so many interesting, educational, and cultural objects you could print like this, and the fact you can "blow up" an object like a insect is even cooler.

Depending on the price, this feels like something that could take off in a big way.

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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What is the 3d printing technique being used here? I can’t intuitively recognize it.

Resin, on one of these big expensive Stratasys machines: https://www.stratasys.com/en/3d-printers/printer-catalog/pol...

so they buy and operate the machine, the customer brings the splat. is this just a print lab?

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Very cool product! And to think, in one of the many prior gaussian splatting threads someone declared there was no way anyone could build a business around the technique.

To be fair, if they first vocalize it they could just use Sparse Voxels which is my favorite differentiable rendering technique https://github.com/NVlabs/svraster

I find the workflow of fitting Gaussian splats and then immediately turning them into voxels to be rather surprising, too. I can imagine some performance benefits at large scale, or maybe a reduced tendency to generate certain types of artifacts, but going straight to voxels seems more straightforward.

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But how does resin do colors?

One approach is to just print CMYK resin like an inkjet printer (and then cure it with UV). Do that hundreds or thousands of times and you eventually get Z height. Look up the EufyMake E1 for a consumer/prosumer version.

The EufiMake isn't really a 3D printer though. It's more a normal printer that can do an embossed/textured print.

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

One approach is to just print CMYK resin like an inkjet printer (and then cure it with UV). Do that hundreds or thousands of times and you eventually get Z height. Look up the EufyMake E1 for a consumer/prosumer version.

The EufiMake isn't really a 3D printer though. It's more a normal printer that can do an embossed/textured print.

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