u/brandnewextragood

I've been getting into 3DGS over the last few months and really enjoying myself. Thanks to you all on this subreddit, I've learned a lot.

One problem I encounter too often is how best to patch holes in a scene. The right answer, obviously, is to not have any holes in your dataset to begin with. Get enough coverage and you won't have this issue.

But even though my capture technique has improved dramatically, I still find myself with a hole in the floor, or wall, or ceiling. It's often same-y flat surfaces that I must subconsciously skip over with my camera.

I would love to clone-stamp the hole in the floor from the surrounding area. I've tried using Quick Gaussian Splat Editor and just cannot get a good result. I feel like this is what I'm looking for, but I can't get the tools to patch these areas.

I've also tried:

1. Modeling the floor in Blender, projecting a texture from another section of the floor, and using the Kiri Engine addon's Mesh 2 3DGS function. I just couldn't this to look good no matter what I tried.
2. Copy/pasting the points in Blender. This might be the closest I've gotten to success, but it looks extremely tiled, and I can't adjust the color of the point cloud to blend it together.

What do you do fix holes in a scan?

UPDATE FROM PREVIOUS POST: https://www.reddit.com/r/Plumbing/comments/1svacq5/water_heater_pilot_light/

Thanks to everyone who commented on my last post with suggestions, especially u/Substantial_Sea7327 who suggested a draft test.

I'm here with an update. The TL;DR of the story is that the pilot light on my water heater keeps going out, even after replacing the entire unit.

It doesn't seem like there's any backdrafting going on that I can tell from the draft hood.

I have more thorough recordings of the water heater taken with a GoPro and my phone, attached here. The flame finally sputters out at 4:44, and the light stops blinking about a minute later. There are also a couple other clips of the flame through the viewing window.

I'm at my wit's end with this! Hopefully these additional recordings can help diagnose what's going on.