The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian
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HN · launched May 19, 2026 · 27 upvotes (top 21%) · 0 views
Niche: digital history and reference archives · 150 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
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- Travel & hospitality
- Not AI
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Could you build this?
No This is a digital cultural heritage asset based on physical on-site LiDAR/photogrammetry capture of historical Buddhist sculptures in Shanxi, China.
What it would actually take: Producing this asset requires physical on-site access to the historical site in Linfen, Shanxi, permissions from cultural authorities, and professional multi-view photogrammetry or laser scanning equipment. The thousands of high-resolution images are then aligned via Structure-from-Motion (COLMAP) and trained into high-fidelity 3D Gaussian splat models (.sog files). The bottleneck is physical fieldwork, access, and photogrammetric post-processing, not application coding.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Black screen with 4 buttons - unclear functionality, Broken in Firefox, Does not run in Firefox latest or Chrome latest desktop
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 325 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #75 of 326 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 189 days after the earliest competitor.
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