> spherical harmonic encoded materials
replyThis in particular has been hilarious for the exact reason you mentioned. For anybody curious, here's a paper from 2008 about this technique:
Ah, so 3DGS is a Neural method?
replyThere is a neural method for computing 3DGS from video or a series of photographs. Rendering 3DGS uses no neural networks as far as I know.
replyIts not a neural method. Its just differential rendering and backprop
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