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       Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San
       Francisco
        
       Author : akanet
       Score  : 90 points
       Date   : 2025-02-20 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (vincentwoo.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (vincentwoo.com)
        
       | slater wrote:
       | Uncaught SyntaxError: import assertions are not currently
       | supported
        
         | akanet wrote:
         | Oh interesting, can you tell me what browser environment you're
         | on?
        
           | duskwuff wrote:
           | I'm getting the same error on Firefox.
        
             | akanet wrote:
             | Thank you, a fix is deploying now.
        
       | ovenchips wrote:
       | I can't find the easter egg. Clues appreciated. :)
        
         | akanet wrote:
         | Look around closely at the top level of the tower :)
        
         | qingcharles wrote:
         | I wonder if it's the dude waving from inside the gantry at the
         | top?
        
       | daft_pink wrote:
       | This is amazing. Hoping you will share more of these soon.
        
       | falcor84 wrote:
       | It's really cool, but I can't shake off an "uncanny valley"
       | feeling, with all of the small quirks in the geometry. What I
       | think I'd be interested in is a post-processing step where this
       | splat is automatically converted to a 3d model that approximates
       | each component, only falling back to the point cloud if there's
       | no simple shape that fits the observation at a particular
       | location.
        
       | thot_experiment wrote:
       | If you haven't seen Tunnel Vision (same author) please do
       | yourself a favor and watch it. Dude does some fantastic projects.
        
         | pinoy420 wrote:
         | Great video if you like watching videos from the front of BART
         | which is pretty boring tbf. Much better videos of locos
         | travelling through the alps
        
       | whatever1 wrote:
       | The fidelity is amazing !
        
       | pinoy420 wrote:
       | Can we see the images it was made with
        
       | CamperBob2 wrote:
       | What blows me away is that R/C drones can operate that close to
       | those antennas. Frequency differences don't tend to matter much
       | once you go past 100,000 watts.
        
       | xrd wrote:
       | So gorgeous.
        
       | FlamingMoe wrote:
       | Beautiful, the visuals combined with the music gave me quite a
       | nostalgic feeling for the city where I once worked daily but
       | haven't visited in years.
        
       | yapyap wrote:
       | I know this from the Watchdog game
        
       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | The wife got me a Sutro Tower shirt one year for Christmas. This
       | was when OTA digital television rolled out. When the rest of San
       | Jose seemed to be taking down their TV aerials or letting them
       | fall apart I was nerding out: purchasing a new one and mast
       | sections from Rat Shack to set up one on our house.
       | 
       | Scanning the spectrum to pull in KQED, etc. The first Austin City
       | Limits I saw in HD blew my mind.
       | 
       | I think all but one TV station came to the South Bay by way of
       | Sutro. Quite a reach.
        
       | atarian wrote:
       | very cool, reminds me of watchdogs. where's the music from? it's
       | very calming
        
       | Samin100 wrote:
       | Wow! I'd love to read a more in-depth blog post describing how to
       | create one of these myself, and maybe even contribute my own
       | splats to a collaborative library for iconic landmarks. I could
       | see interactive splats being added to Wikipedia for popular
       | locations.
        
       | LeoPanthera wrote:
       | Broadcast television is amazing, and I'm so sad it's dying out.
       | OK, maybe we don't need to tune in at 6 to watch the latest
       | episode of "Friends" anymore, but for any kind of live events -
       | news, sport, politics, having high-definition video you can pull
       | right out of the air without having to worry about paying for
       | data, latency, or bandwidth limitations, is amazing.
       | 
       | For certain applications the internet can never compete with
       | "broadcast".
        
       | spps11 wrote:
       | very cool! always wondered what that tower was haha, now i know!
        
       | IshKebab wrote:
       | This does not work at all on Android Chrome. The about dialog
       | flies in super slowly, continually re-layouting the text, and
       | there's no "small cube" and no way to dismiss the about dialog
       | either.
       | 
       | The background looks tantalising but maybe a little more testing
       | is needed... (e.g. for the most common browser/OS in the world).
        
       | rd wrote:
       | Does anything like this exist for just flying around cities (not
       | SF, anywhere) in general? Would love to experience what a drone
       | sees even if it's in a limited area.
        
       | wst_ wrote:
       | I think it would help to be able to move up and down (ex. space
       | and shift keys) without changing the camera angle. This seems a
       | better solution, to me, than existing pan with 3rd mouse button.
        
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