Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
Details
- External ID
- 48191602
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
- Website domain
- superspl.at
- Launched
- May 19, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 530
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9919224555735057
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
The Setup:https://i.imgur.com/o0hgybh.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/mcNiomp.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/vIjw6pc.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/nzOwmSC.jpeg
Enrichment
- Theme
- 3D graphics and physics simulation tools
- Vertical
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- Function
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- Audience
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- AI stance
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- Project type
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- Normalized one-liner
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- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is a photogrammetry dataset and 3D Gaussian Splatting reconstruction requiring specialized physical camera gear, macro focus stacking techniques, and COLMAP reconstruction pipelines.
What it would actually take: Recreating this requires high-end physical camera hardware (such as a Nikon Z8 with macro lens, turntable, and controlled lighting), shooting 90+ multi-focus image stacks, and running software like Helicon Focus. The resulting thousands of images must be processed through COLMAP for Structure from Motion and trained using custom CUDA/Slang Gaussian splatting implementations. It is a physical macro-photography and computational photogrammetry problem, completely outside software vibe-coding.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: phone camera + ffmpeg + colmap + opensplat, COLMAP, traditional polygonal 3D meshes, texture-mapped geometry
Concerns raised: Lighting is baked in, doesn't work with dynamic lighting, Not suitable for animated bodies or skeletal animation, Poor quality on thin or sharp surfaces and reflections, Very memory-hungry (10x data size vs meshes), Can't be lit by scene lights or receive shadows
Feature requests: Better capture of very small object details, Support for skeletal animation and deformation, Integration into Blender rendering pipeline (Cycles/EEVEE), Reduce memory footprint and file size, Improved handling of thin surfaces and reflective materials
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 22 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 23 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 156 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tsplat · hn · 2026-04-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Gaussian-Render-Capture · github · 2026-09-23 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame · hn · 2026-04-23 · 236 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- SVO Voxelization for Gaussian Splat Collisions · hn · 2026-02-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- SplatHash · hn · 2026-02-28 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- hktex · github · 2026-09-09 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- straw · github · 2026-09-27 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco · hn · 2026-07-20 · 263 upvotes · similarity 0.34
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.