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by wxw 8 days ago
From OP's prior work scanning Sutro Tower in SF: https://vincentwoo.com/2025/02/18/sutro-tower-in-3d/.

> This scan is made possible by recent advances in Gaussian Splatting. This is an emerging technology that lets us quickly create very detailed models just from photographs. For this model (or splat, as we call them), my friend Daylen and I flew our drones around Sutro Tower at a respectful distance for an afternoon until we had collected a few thousand photographs.

> I then aligned these pictures in free software called RealityCapture. Alignment is the process that teaches the computer that a bunch of points in different images all actually correspond with the same point in real life. Then I used another piece of free software called gsplat to produce the 3D model itself.

I'm assuming this was done similarly. Very cool.
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akanet 8 days ago
Yes, I also added a bit of context on twitter (https://xcancel.com/fulligin/status/2079296985811873796) and will probably blog about the process a bit more. Grace was a lot more work than Sutro. I wanted to be ambitious in combining interior/exterior scenes in a new way, and I also wanted it to be less of a "toy". Grace actually plans to use this to show prospective renters the space, and we spent a lot of time making sure it could run well on a wide variety of devices.
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wxw 8 days ago
Looking forward to it. I'm also a big fan of https://vincentwoo.com/2023/07/20/tunnel-vision-an-unauthori..., thanks for keeping the internet interesting.
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nmstoker 8 days ago
Beautiful work, thank you for sharing it!

In case it's useful, given your last sentence, it runs really well on Chrome on Android (on a Pixel 10) but it's a bit glitchy (although not impossible) on Firefox on Android. The loading indicator on Chrome got stuck briefly whereas the Firefox one was smoother, but that's about the only case there Firefox is better.

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Hnrobert42 8 days ago
FWIW, it works great in Firefox focus on an iPhone 16 Pro.
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skanga 8 days ago
So beautifully done, its mindblowing. Please blog about your process a bit more.
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schaefer 8 days ago
absolutely beautiful. I'd love to learn this process and attempt to capture a local rock climbing route.

anything you write about the process, or how you learned are very welcome.

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