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Paid role: We are looking for some support for LichtFeld Studio @lichtfeldstudio Enabled by Core11: core11.eu/

Everybody is stepping into the LOD game, and so is LichtFeld Studio. Preview of 260M Gaussians streaming into the viewer live. I use the RAD format which is processed on GPU within LichtFeld. It can be also simply dumped straight into the spark.js web viewer, albeit it will die at that amount of Gaussians. What other solutions don't tell you is that they need hours to preprocess a 3DGS ply to make it streamable. This was just a ply exported to RAD by LichtFeld Studio's convert tool (took 5 min at that size) and it is immediately ready to stream. In the comments there is a smaller dataset with 103M Gaussians that streams on startup into the viewer. Both datasets were created by Andrii Shramko. Let's see how far I can push this (need bigger datasets)

Thank you for contributing to the LichtFeld Studio project! I have some awesome news. Many people have already decided to donate to the LFS project. Thanks to this support, I’m now able to issue the first grant to Shady Gmira (see linkedin link in comment as he is not here), which will help move the project forward faster. Shady is already well known for winning the densification bounty, continuously supporting users here and on GitHub, authoring multiple plugins (Densification, Sharp (4D), and COLMAP), and regularly contributing code to LichtFeld. Shady will be working part-time on the project throughout May alongside his studies. He will mainly focus on supporting the RAD format for LoDs and will also likely implement an asset manager for storing and inspecting your 3DGS files inside LFS. Going forward, if the situation allows, I would like to continue doing this, preferably by supporting people who already have experience with and have already contributed to this project. Next time, with more planning upfront, we will decide more collaboratively which features should be implemented through portal.lichtfeld.io. Please keep supporting this project!

Heads up: there are some changes coming to LichtFeld Studio. LichtFeld is growing quite a lot, but contributions are not. In fact, besides the two corporate contributors and one bronze sponsor, there is less than $100 on average contributed per month. There were 10,000 downloads in the last 30 days, and nobody contributed anything financially back to the project. Not a single dollar. I cannot support my living on that basis. Given the amount of work I am putting into this project, and it is a lot, often easily 60 hours a week, to provide a state-of-the-art, self-contained 3D reconstruction suite that is used by businesses around the world, this situation is no longer sustainable. The idea was to grow it together, but at the moment it is mainly being used without enough support in return. If every user had contributed only $10, the continuation of the project would have been secured. I have asked for that quite often. I like sharing my knowledge, but I cannot sustain it under these circumstances. Going forward, there will not be any free binaries provided anymore. I created a portal at portal.lichtfeld.io which will give access to daily binaries after registration and donation. This will hopefully help finance the development and maybe even allow me to pay someone in addition. If you cannot afford it, you can still put in the work and build it from source. There are no restrictions. I am aware that people like to work around something like this, and they certainly will. But in the end, that simply means that my work on this project will be discontinued at some point. Btw, after payment an invoice will be automatically issued!

I am proud to announce that @VolingaAI has joined LichtFeld Studio as a Gold Sponsor. As a key player in the 3DGS world, Volinga is not only supporting LichtFeld Studio financially, but will also help us implement HDR support and actively use LichtFeld Studio within its 3DGS training pipeline. Read more on @RadianceFields. Links in the comment below!

Some words I want to share about the LichtFeld Studio philosophy and the role of the Python plugin system: With the growing adoption and improving capabilities of LLMs, my vision for the Python integration is to empower everybody to easily build custom tools. That's why LichtFeld Studio is transforming into a very fast C++ core with a Python layer on top. My idea and work in progress is to create a platform that is self-contained and can just be run without any installation issues. You can simply pull the latest nightly build onto your system and run it either from hard disk or even from USB. The bundled Python environment shall make it a breeze to hook up any advanced coding LLM to create custom tools for your workflow. This is currently in development for the next release v0.5.0 and works already to a large extent. This includes but is not limited to: • Mesh to splat • COLMAP integration • SAM3 integration • Diffusion models applied on top of the Gaussian Splat • Faster experimentation with training • Instant densification • And more… You can hook into most parts of the GUI already. The only limit is your imagination and you should be able to create everything your creative workflow requires. You can influence the development and you also own the tool. No privacy concerns, everything can run locally or remotely as you like. I am happy about code support but also about testing, bug reports, and most importantly financial support. If this project is useful to you, please help to make it sustainable by supporting this project with donations. Some options are listed on lichtfeld.io but also feel free to reach out to me to help keep this project going.