The splat is based on a wooden model build from a sketch of Leonardo DaVinci from between 1952 and 1953, presents a wooden catapult featuring springs tensioned by a lead screw located in the base of the A-frame structure. This ballista is designed to launch stones along a parabolic trajectory. It is designed to achieve high power within modest dimensions. Particularly interesting are the various devices used to increase the flexibility of the springs, thereby ensuring an effective launch.
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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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