The splat shows a wooden model of a paddle wheel boat based on a design by Leonardo da Vinci. The model demonstrates a manually operated mechanism where cranks and gears turn the side paddle wheels to propel the vessel. In the 15th and early 16th centuries, Leonardo da Vinci designed numerous mechanical apparatures and watercraft, which are today frequently displayed as scale models in technology museums.
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The splat shows a low-end option to create a small scene in 2026. It is only ~3mb big and made from a single image using ComfyUI with the Triposplat workflow on a RTX3060 with 6GB VRAM, it takes about 3 min to generate a splat with 262144 Gaussians.
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Gaussian splat from single image within ComfyUI: https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/3d/triposplat
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