I did a quick 1min scan of myself using my Revopoint Pop 4 beta unit. I was wondering what would happen if I stared directly at the RGB camera while scanning. Can't say I'm disappointed.
You don't need to read my rantings, you can poke my splats yourself if you want:
Skull candle on books: https://superspl.at/scene/7d564202
My beat up old shoe: https://superspl.at/scene/ac387f17
Big Daddy figurine: https://superspl.at/scene/944326be
PS5 Controller: https://superspl.at/scene/522d910e
I'm one of the people beta testing the Pop 4, and all I can say is WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE GAUSSIAN SPLATTING!?
This is a killer feature to me and I can't stop splatting everything within reach.
If you're not aware: A Gaussian Splat is not mesh based. Instead they're made of thousands of ellipsoid blobs that carry positional, opacity, color, shape, size, and transformation data. They come together to recreate not just the shape and color of an object, but the actual way light and color behave on the target to create photorealistic color and lighting while being hyper efficient in terms of data size and rendering.
These are full Gaussian Splats I've made using the Pop 4. Creating a splat from a scan is literally just a one-button operation in the post-processing pipeline.
I'm still mastering the best practices to get my best splatterings and definitely still a novice level splatterer, but I won't stop until I've splattered everything I can.
Tl:dr: splat.
So to be up front: I'm a beta tester for an upcoming 3D Scanner, the Revopoint Pop 4. One of the new features is the ability to create Gaussian Splats using the scan data.
These aren't created by converting a colored point cloud or textured mesh to a splat. These are actual fully generated splats made using the color frames captured by the scanner.
Because the color frames already include spatial and depth data the processing is pretty quick and easy with extremely accurate results. Each of these took ~15 minutes to process on my desktop using an RTX 3080 and Ryzen 5900x.
I'm no expert in splatting, I just wanted to share what I've made so far and get the thoughts from those who have more experience in this realm than I do. What do y'all think?