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Looking down from the bluffs at Camusett State Historic Park Preserve last Monday Elliot and I went to Huntington, NY to catch BAND-MAID's world tour! #photo #photography #beach #longisland #ocean #sand

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 11h

... to be survive VR trash games. If your headset is powerful though, you can load that web page and fly around it -- I think he flew drones all around that tower to collect the images

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 11h

... but it can manage about 1 frame per second on my VR headset and I made the mistake of loading it when I was transitioning from standing to sitting on the couch and could have fallen if I hadn't trained myself to ignore my visual input and trust my inner ear and proprioception ...

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 11h

... but there is a trade-off in terms of the size of the model, like scaniverse models work well on the Meta Quest 3 which doesn't have a lot of RAM or processing power, this one on the other hand looks gorgeous frame-by-frame vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tow...

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Sutro Tower in 3D

Explore San Francisco's iconic TV tower in 3D.

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 11h

you might be able to shoot people if you got them to be still enough, especially if you had a lot of cameras like they use for the "bullet time" effect: you can make super-detailed models, like these are insane lidarnews.com/macro-gaussi... ...

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Macro Gaussian Splatting of Insects - Lidar News

Dany Bittel uses macro Gaussian splatting to create lifelike 3D insect models, blending 3D rendering with macro photography expertise.

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 11h

this one is in that garden scaniverse.com/scan/sdmfogc... but scaniverse.com/scan/sh5rhms... is a new one at the new botanic gardens visitor center and scaniverse.com/scan/ips2igd... is on North campus

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Arboretum Rd

View this scan by @UP8 in 3D on Scaniverse.

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Elliot and I went to New York City last Sunday and saw this weightlighting man #photo #photography #portrait #nyc #newyork #urban #weightlifting #city

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

it's pretty computationally demanding... i tried to install it on an old and cheap Android and I couldn't, i've only used it on an iPhone; with creative tools (printers, cameras) you have to watch out for 1-star reviews from people who had unrealistic expectations...

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussia... as an end user you just walk around something with your phone and the app does the rest!

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Gaussian splatting - Wikipedia

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

see scaniverse.com/@UP8 i gotta get my friend who's into astrology to interpret a horoscope made of those planets! (funny that Wikipedia tries not to tell enough about astrology to actually do astrology but wikipedia has interpretations of all the tarot cards and I Ching hexagrams)

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@UP8 - Scaniverse - 20 scans

See the best 20 lidar scans from @UP8 in 3D on Scaniverse.

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i think to my back in that shot... it might look good in a 9mm shot but lemmie get you a scaniverse model of it next time I am down there

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been thinking of making a new card front titled "Civilian?" where I'm wearing a fox shirt but no ears #photo #photography #portrait #selfportrait #kitsune #fox #therianthropy #foxwork #fashion

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Group at Assembly of God Block Party in Groton two weeks ago #photo #photography #groupportrait #groton #festival

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Two friends pose together at the ithaca Harvest Festival -- these are the last photos for people I gave cards to last Saturday #photo #photography #ithaca #groupportrait #festival #ithacacommons #appleharvestfestival

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I took this with the selfie stick in Monkey Run back in August -- I'm looking for the right chance to take some group photos with myself-as-a-fox #photo #photography #portrait #selfie #selfportrait #monkeyrun #ithaca #outdoors #fox #foxwork #kitsune #kemomimi #therianthropy

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A group at Ithaca Porchfest that recognized me from the fireworks in Groton -- I think that's everyone from Porchfest this year! #photo #photography #groupportrait #porchfest #ithaca #downtown

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can still rock in the free world! (I'm not the fastest photographer... I've still got some photos from Porchfest a week ago!) #photo #photography #ithaca #festival #porchfest #downtown

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Women with spiked choker and black velvet top at Apple Harvest Festival last Saturday #photo #photography #portrait #ithaca #ithacacommons #appleharvestfestival #festival #fashion

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