gsplat 1.3 Released

Almost immediately after our live podcast with Ruilong Li, he was back on GitHub, pushing through pull requests and releasing gsplat 1.3.

This update includes several smaller improvements, but notably, it officially introduces the compression method into the repository. What stands out to me in this release is the inclusion of orthographic projection.

Here is the full changelog:

• Make sure the build directory exists. by @keunhong in #319

• docs: update README.md by @eltociear in #322

• Fix typo in examples/simple_viewer.py by @simo23 in #321

• Consolidate simple_trainer.py and simple_trainer_mcmc.py by @brentyi in #325

• Compressing gaussian splats by @jefequien in #309

• Simplify tyro usage in simple_trainer.py by @brentyi in #332

• Cleanup C/CUDA code for C users by @liruilong940607 in #333

• Patch to make Strategy compatible with splatfacto by @kerrj in #334

• Fix minor typo by @zhiguotang5 in #342

• correct distCoeffs of SIMPLE_RADIAL by @Master-cai in #337

• Add np.random.choice fallback for many Gaussians exceeding torch.multinomial limits by @soskek in #338

• data parser for t&t dataset by @liruilong940607 in #347

• Added orthographic projection by @VladislavZavadskyy in #349

• Fix bug related to refine_scale2d and add pause_refine_after_reset to default strategy by @jb-ye in #354

• tt compression script by @liruilong940607 in #357

• Update to 1.3.0 by @liruilong940607 in #366

gpslat continues to be Apache 2.0 licensed and welcoming of contributions! To get started, check out their Github.