Re:Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
by perching_aix on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @10:07AM
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That's kinda what NERFs are (neural radience fields). They actually preceeded this Gaussian story, with Gaussians coming in and outperforming them. Maybe they'll merge later for something even better, I don't know enough about them.
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Re:Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
by MattCruikshank on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @10:18AM
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Sure, but NERFs were trying to match your input photos and poses, not some arbitrary prompt, if I understand correctly.
Yes they are image generators. You want image generator generators.
A diffusion style process generating gausians instead of pixels. You could possibly do nerfs that way, but it would be effectively generating a trained network. If you managed to do that it would have broad application throughout the field of AI.
Re:Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
by dpoloncsak on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @12:50PM
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What would this look like in practice? A net that outputs weights for a new net to use?
Couldn’t you “uncurry” such a process to have only a single network?
Re:Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
by dpoloncsak on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @02:38PM
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Probably? I'm no expert, just a SysAdmin trying to keep up really... but in my head it's would look like a form of MoE that would gen the 'Expert' model on demand instead of having a variety baked in.
That's assuming you could even reasonably train a neural net to output viable weights, of course.
NERFs have significantly higher image quality than 3D Gaussian Splatting or more recent similar techniques, though they are much slower to render.
Re:Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
by thrownthatway on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @11:06AM
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This one month old video did a reasonable job of getting my entirely ignorant self relatively up to day on NERFs and Gaussian Splats: