[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.