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Use 3D scans of real places and things.

Gaussian splats you can clean, grade, relight, bend and fill a field with.

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Things to make
a scanned clockwork robot figurine, the camera circling it once · scan by Seeget3D (superspl.at), CC BY 4.0
01

Rig a scan and make it walk

A scanned soldier gets a skeleton and walks a motion capture loop.

  1. Fit a skeleton inside the scan with the body model.
  2. Split the splats into arms and body at the gap where his sleeves hang clear of his jacket.
  3. Bind the body model's chest to the spine and collarbones only, so the arms no longer own it.
  4. Carry the weights onto the splats: the body from the chest-only model, the arms from the whole one.
  5. Match a motion capture walk to his skeleton and play it.
3DGeoImportSOG→3DGeoSplatRigFit→3DGeoRigCaptureProximity→3DGeoRigCaptureTransfer→3DGeoSplatSkin+3DGeoGroupExpression+3DGeoRigRetarget
a scanned soldier walking toward the camera, a CMU motion capture walk carried onto his skeleton · scan by Erant (superspl.at), CC BY 4.0
02

Clean up a Gaussian splat

Cut the object out of the scene and drop the stray specks.

  1. Open the PLY, SPZ or SOG file.
  2. Crop to the object.
  3. Remove the stray specks.
3DGeoImportSPZ→3DGeoSplatCrop→3DGeoSplatPrune
a family of raccoons in a hollow stump, cut out of the yard it was scanned in · scan by Niantic Labs, MIT license
03

Move the sun around a scan

The light rakes across the suit while the splat stays still.

  1. Take the baked light out of the splat.
  2. Light it with a sky.
  3. Move the sun around it.
3DGeoSplatDelight→3DGeoSplatProbeRelight→3DGeoSceneRenderToImage
an astronaut scan with its own light taken out, under a sun that swings from side to side · scan by Hasnain (superspl.at), CC BY 4.0
04

Give a scan a film look

Bring the color table from your grading app and lay it on.

  1. Load the color table.
  2. Lay it on the splat.
  3. Put the amount on a MIDI knob.
3DGeoImportPLY→3DGeoSplatClut→3DGeoSceneRenderToImage
a scanned garden sculpture going from the way it was shot to a warm film look from a color table, and back · scan by Niantic Labs, MIT license
05

Squash a scan into a new shape

Press it wide and low and keep it looking like a photo.

  1. Put a cage around the splat.
  2. Pull the cage points.
  3. The weave and shells stretch together.
3DGeoImportPLY→3DGeoSplatCageDeform→3DGeoSceneRenderToImage
a scanned basket of shells pressed wide and low by a cage, then let go · scan by Marc (superspl.at), CC BY 4.0
06

Turn a scan into a solid

Give a splat a surface that things can bump into.

  1. Open the splat.
  2. Build a surface from it.
  3. Export it, or use it as a collider.
3DGeoImportPLY→3DGeoSplatToSurface→3DGeoExportGLTF
a scanned man in body armor beside the solid built from his scan · scan by Erant (superspl.at), CC BY 4.0
a scanned man in body armor beside the solid built from his scan · scan by Erant (superspl.at), CC BY 4.0
07

Fill a field with splats

One scan copied until it runs off every edge of the frame.

  1. Load one splat.
  2. Scatter copies across the ground.
  3. Fade them into the dark.
3DGeoImportPLY→3DGeoInstanceScatter→3DGeoSceneRenderToImage
one scanned soldier copied across a field until the crowd runs off the frame · scan by Erant (superspl.at), CC BY 4.0
one scanned soldier copied across a field until the crowd runs off the frame · scan by Erant (superspl.at), CC BY 4.0
Take it further

It all connects.

Every part of Kinematic works with the others. Wire one into the next.

Create

One photo, one object

Turn a single picture into a 3D object.

InputImageFile→LocalAIImageTo3DObjectSplat
Perform

Map a room in points

Depth from a webcam or a depth camera, turned into points as you walk the room.

LocalAIImageToDepth→3DGeoDepthPointCloud
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Simulate

Pour it out as sand

Every speck of the scan falls as a grain.

3DGeoSplatToParticles→3DGeoParticleChainSolver
Keep going
← PreviousVectorDraw and edit vector art.
Tutorial: Give a 3D scan a golden glow→Browse the Create demos→Coming from Maya?→Coming from Cinema 4D?→

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