[spookie]

Quite true. It's great to have a 3D representation of what you want, however.

Gotta say, tools like these or NeRF will only revolutionise 3D modelling if they ever get topology right. That's the hard part.

[andybak]

You're assuming that this is always part of a pipeline that ends with a clean mesh representation that can be rendered using traditional techniques.

I think it's equally likely that we'll end up with replacing meshes - or with a hybrid pipeline where non-mesh representations coexist with something else.

I am thinking about realtime mainly but I think the same thing might apply to "offline" rendering (does anyone still call it that?)

[spookie]

You might be right. Interesting