Hi, Can someone confirm that cloning and creating instances of Gaussian Splatting objects would have the same performance (in terms of memory and computation)? I would think so because the difference between these two is only materials, and Gaussian Splatting do not have materials. Thank you, Da…

GS Instances have a lower cost but there is a cost. Splats need to be sorted back to front so they have their own sort buffer and their own web worker. GS has a material. At its heart, it’s a mesh with a material and effect for Vertex and Fragment shader.

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Clone vs instances of Gaussian Splattings

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Deltakosh June 6, 2025, 10:09pm 2

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Clone vs instances of Gaussian Splattings

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