[HN Gopher] Plenoxels
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       Plenoxels
        
       Author : unwind
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2021-12-10 20:07 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (alexyu.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (alexyu.net)
        
       | kingcharles wrote:
       | Forgive me if I have this all wrong, but in summary it seems to
       | be that they have created a faster algorithm for creating a 3D
       | (built of voxels, not polygons) from a set of 2D photos of that
       | scene.
       | 
       | Am I right?
        
         | h0l0cube wrote:
         | No, AFAICT it's actually building a representation of a more
         | detailed ray-traced 3D geometry in a way that can be rendered
         | real time from any angle and with realistic lighting
        
       | taliesinb wrote:
       | Interesting, but the video is only available at 480p for now, so
       | it's hard to actually see any details in the demo. I assume this
       | was uploaded very recently and YT is still processing the higher-
       | quality versions.
        
       | The_rationalist wrote:
       | https://alexyu.net/plenoctrees/
        
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