Printing Gaussian Splats • Hacker News Board

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by jawngee » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 3:08 AM UTC

stavros wrote: post #12

arjie wrote: post #10

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?

UV Inkjet.

HeyGears is releasing a prosumer full color UV inkjet resin printer this year for https://store.heygears.com/products/heygears-g1-direct

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by promiseofbeans » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 3:35 AM UTC

diabllicseagull wrote: post #15

JonathonW wrote: post #7

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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?

Looks like it. Plus it looks like they’re closer to a traditional screen sprinting shop in that they just take a file and will work with you manually tweak and adjust things to look good, rather than just printing a file straight away

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by smusamashah » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 3:48 AM UTC

This is the splat https://superspl.at/scene/3ae6a716

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by loclol101 » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 4:11 AM UTC

Definitely ready to try this. Some scifi stuff

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by KeplerBoy » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC

How much are the prints approximately? Can't see a price anywhere.

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by thenthenthen » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 5:19 AM UTC

KeplerBoy wrote: post #25

How much are the prints approximately? Can't see a price anywhere.

Not sure, but this will be cheap soon and invading trinket shops everywhere for sure!

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by wincy » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 5:27 AM UTC

jawngee wrote: post #21

stavros wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But how does resin do colors?

UV Inkjet. HeyGears is releasing a prosumer full color UV inkjet resin printer this year for https://store.heygears.com/products/heygears-g1-direct

Well, to actually 3D print looks like it’s $3300, but still that’s really incredible! Seems substantially less messy than the resin printers I played around with a few years ago.

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by KeplerBoy » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:19 AM UTC

thenthenthen wrote: post #26

KeplerBoy wrote: post #25

How much are the prints approximately? Can't see a price anywhere.

Not sure, but this will be cheap soon and invading trinket shops everywhere for sure!

Sure beats flexy dragons, so I'm all for it.

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by thenthenthen » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:37 AM UTC

KeplerBoy wrote: post #28

thenthenthen wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure, but this will be cheap soon and invading trinket shops everywhere for sure!

Sure beats flexy dragons, so I'm all for it.

You know exactly what I was hinting at haha

Re: Printing Gaussian Splats

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Post by GL26 » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 6:52 AM UTC

Interesting how they voxelate the splat to print it. I am sure there are more efficient algorithms that allow you to make a mesh which then gets sliced before printing