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The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian

Details

External ID
48190121
Source
HN
Company
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Product
The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian
Website domain
funes.world
Launched
May 19, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
27
Upvotes percentile
0.7859450726978998
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
niche developer utilities and guides
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Normalized one-liner
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Manually corrected
False

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 — 137 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #35 of 138 (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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