Alright, I&#x27;ve reached out via email. Thank you for going out of your way to connect.

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There’s work done around DeepSDF that do latent space diffusion but you end with a solid geometry suitable for 3D printing.

Would love to get away from photogrammetry the day splatting gets good enough

It would be really neat for 3D printing and scanning. However, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;ll work with functional prints given dimensional accuracy is important. photogrammetry still has a 1-up on this I believe.

If perfect topology interferes with shipping, it&#x27;s overrated.I could think of some mechanics I could add to Tentacle Typer (my indie game) if I had 3d models of the top 2000 most used nouns. I could decimate vert soup meshes into something usable for all of them in a weekend.Rigging would take longer. Quick and dirty pass I could do it in a month. Complex animations I wouldn&#x27;t even try, but Brownian motion on some bones would breath a lot of life into things for basically no effort.Like it or not, this kind of thing will get absorbed into some workflows eventually.

Doubtful they&#x27;ll be optimized for games. I guess if by indie you mean unoptimized then maybe...you still don&#x27;t get rigs or animation.I mean, at that point you could just make a 2d game with the input images.

GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation