Gaussian Splatting is a recent technique for taking a bunch of geolocated photos of a location & converting them into a digital 3D scene! Represented as splotches of virtual paint in 3D space.
Could potentially be very useful...
It works by repeatedly repositioning & recolouring these splats until they match your photos, taking advantage of how efficient it is to render these splats. Once trained it renders in real-time, & training is reasonably fast too.
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