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New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

akanet — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:23:12 +0000

yep

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

akanet — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:22:42 +0000

Anchor points on the windows!

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

akanet — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:21:38 +0000

thanks for double checking, that's very good to know!

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

akanet — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:18:11 +0000

It looks like a webgpu driver issue - can you tell me what model of graphics chip you're using?

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

akanet — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:33:40 +0000

Yes, I also added a bit of context on twitter (https://xcancel.com/fulligin/status/2079296985811873796) and will probably blog about the process a bit more. Grace was a lot more work than Sutro. I wanted to be ambitious in combining interior/exterior scenes in a new way, and I also wanted it to be less of a "toy". Grace actually plans to use this to show prospective renters the space, and we spent a lot of time making sure it could run well on a wide variety of devices.

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

akanet — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:31:31 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by akanet in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

akanet — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:31:15 +0000

I spent a lot of time hand-masking out inconsistencies between shoots. I waited too long between sessions and they actually built out an entirely new section of ceiling. PPISP guidance in splatting also helps a lot in solving sensor inconsistencies between the many different cameras and lighting conditions that went into the source dataset.

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco

akanet — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:10:44 +0000

Article URL: https://vincentwoo.com/3d/grace_cathedral/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984254

Points: 263

# Comments: 60

New comment by akanet in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

akanet — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:48:57 +0000

The article is very clearly human written. The author discussed on twitter that he used Claude for visualization and feedback. You can simply say you don't like the writing style, but it is not a very useful comment to have written in any case.

New comment by akanet in "Remote work, not AI, has sidelined recent college graduates, research finds"

akanet — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:02:33 +0000

Are you implying that the federal reserve bank of New York has an incentive to mislead? Did you examine the study methodology?

New comment by akanet in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

akanet — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:57:51 +0000

This article is solely overly wordy (probably ai) restatements of essentially just what vercel has publicly disclosed already

New comment by akanet in "YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push"

akanet — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:53:19 +0000

It is very amusing to read HN comments that complain about the "enshittification" of free platforms while simultaneously mocking those who would pay for stuff they like. YT is dollar for dollar the best digital subscription I pay for and I pay it gladly.

New comment by akanet in "Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US robotaxis"

akanet — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:54:47 +0000

Waymo remote operators cannot drive the car

New comment by akanet in "Photographing the hidden world of slime mould"

akanet — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:12:23 +0000

A couple years ago I became obsessed with getting slime mold to grow on a cast 3-dimensional substrate. I finally got it working on an agar mold of Donald Trump's face, which you can see here: https://youtu.be/pxEN-YKDDVM.

New comment by akanet in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

akanet — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:31:05 +0000

Very nice, quite enjoyed that.

New comment by akanet in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

akanet — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:56:21 +0000

Most of it is not drone, but you have to think a bit about the angle and duration to realize this. Merry Christmas

New comment by akanet in "Legal win"

akanet — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:15:36 +0000

Matt do you guys still use the office in the US Bank Building in the mission?

New comment by akanet in "Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature"

akanet — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:08:12 +0000

I ran a company that did price segmentation on SSO, and it's the other way around. The burden of supporting the buggy piece of crap that is SAML SSO is the cost of the privilege of being able to perform such sharp segmentation.

New comment by akanet in "Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction"

akanet — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:01:43 +0000

The ones paying $20 for the viewing? I think so.

New comment by akanet in "Free Gaussian Primitives at Anytime Anywhere for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction"

akanet — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:47:30 +0000

People often say this about vr, but I think the truth is that consumers of adult videos are not motivated enough and the production costs outweigh the benefits. The demo scenes here were each captured on about 20 cameras, each carefully synchronized and rigged to be out of each other's lines of sight. Add the expertise and time to train the models (still more like pets than cattle) and we're getting into movie ticket territory and away from tube site