🛠️ Recommended Use: Splats are great for capturing translucent or thin objects, which Photogrammetry meshes do not capture well. If your subject is or contains shiny, thin, or translucent materials, such as 🍂 leaves, glass, metal, etc, a splat will produce superior results. Splats are also recommended for whole scenes, such as rooms, places, and spaces.
Creating files for Photogrammetry and splat processing is the same, although the image files are processed differently when creating the final 3d model. For this reason, you can always process and reprocess your files in either mode to compare the results. See: Creating Photogrammetry Captures
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Examples of Gaussian Splat Captures
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Steps to Make a Splat in Polycam's Mobile Apps
1) Start a capture in Photo mode.
2) Take photos exactly like you would for a normal scan
3) For your Processing Mode, choose Gaussian Splat instead of Photogrammetry
Steps to Make a Splat on Web
1) Go to Poly.cam
2) Click the Create button, and follow the prompts to set up an account/profile.
Tips
- Your image set should be between 20 and 200 images, in either PNG or JPG format.
- For the best results, your image set should follow photogrammetry best practices.
- It is important that your images or video do not have motion blur or shallow depth of field (bokeh) effects.
- Uniformly crisp, well-lit images will produce the highest-quality reconstructions.
- Drone images work great.
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