[nextlevelwizard]

If down the line this model could create 3D model from 2D images that would be very neat way to pay less for war gaming models

[satvikpendem]

Gaussian splats and neural radiance fields already exist.

[nextlevelwizard]

I dont know how that solves this. How do you get STLs out of gausian splats?

[whywhywhywhy]

Not splats as such but text to polygon model and image to polygon model exist and for the use case of figurines that's fine to convert to formats for 3D printers.

[semi-extrinsic]

You can already do this with apps like Kira. I believe it is especially good on the iPhone variants with LiDAR.

[nextlevelwizard]

I dont know that app specifically, but from all videos of different lidar and other 3d scanning tools I have seen the results are pretty bad and require a lot of sculpting after the scan. Whole point was that with few images the ML model could construct the actual 3d model for you

[protocolture]

Already done. Cults generally has stls of 40k models before release. Its just a matter of finding them.

[nextlevelwizard]

doesnt really help if I cant find them and I guess if I could find them so could GW and they would be taken down. Having an application you can host at home that could do the job from pictures would be awesome

[protocolture]

Cults used to be really good at avoiding this stuff, but Scrungaloids, which is just a parody of 40k that apes some rogue trader aesthetics got nuked within 48 hours of going live on cults so the dream seems to be dead.