3D profile (Gaussian splats)
3D profile (Gaussian splats)
The sidebar avatar (_includes/author-profile.html) shows a 3D Gaussian-splat bust that can be rotated with the mouse. The viewer is assets/js/profile3d-splat.js (GaussianSplats3D 0.4.7 on three.js 0.170, both resolved by the import map in _includes/head/custom.html); its styles are in _sass/_profile3d.scss. images/profile.jpg remains the placeholder while the splats download and the fallback on narrow screens or without WebGL.
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
profile3d.ksplat | Default asset (4.5 MB), GaussianSplats3D compressed format (level 1). |
profile3d.splat | Fallback asset (6.0 MB), generic .splat format, used only if the .ksplat fails to load. |
profile_512.png | 512-px copy of images/profile.png that was the input to the generation pipeline. |
The bust was generated from the single ID photo with FaceLift (ICCV 2025, multi-view diffusion + GS-LRM) and is used as FaceLift produced it, without cutting (188,001 splats; only FaceLift’s own filter |x| <= 0.91, y >= -1.0 applies). The torso therefore ends in a blurry boundary at the bottom and the underside is open, which is why the viewer limits the polar angle and the stylesheet fades the lower part of the canvas out. Coordinates are y-up with the face towards +z and the head centred near the origin; bounding box x [-0.91, 0.91], y [-1.00, 0.76], z [-0.72, 0.63]. The initial camera and orbit centre come from the container’s data-cam (“0,0.05,2.9”) and data-look (“0,-0.1,0”) attributes in _includes/author-profile.html.
The pipeline lives on the GPU server (/mnt/kelp/jhlee/etc/homepage/3d/); the handoff bundle’s GAUSSIAN_VIEWER_GUIDE.md explains how to regenerate the two assets. FaceLift weights are released under the Adobe Research License (non-commercial research use), and these assets are its output.
An earlier attempt with TRELLIS.2 (scripts/generate_profile_trellis2.py) was not completed and is not used.