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A large format XY scanning hyperspectral camera captures detailed spectral and spatial data across wide areas. The device combines hyperspectral imaging capabilities with XY scanning technology, enabling comprehensive… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    An introduction to non-line-of-sight imaging, and how to create images of hidden objects around a corner in under 10 minutes!

    2019 · analytech-solutions.com · its alternatives →

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    Ultra-fast and customizable Python charts. Contribute to reflex-dev/xy development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A computer vision engineer by day and photographer by night, I never take the path most traveled, especially when it comes to imaging technology. Thermal

    2021 · petapixel.com · its alternatives →

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    Hyperspectral Miniaturized Cam

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API that renders glTF scenes. It supports many materials, textures, material & normal mapping, and heavily relies on multiple importance sampling to speed up convergence.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Full-color 3D scanning on your iPhone X (and up)

    2018 · scandypro.page.link · its alternatives →

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    A $50 DIY camera with interchangeable lenses

    2020 · raspberrypi.com · its alternatives →

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    PTRig▲99

    360-degree spherical video camera system

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    A tool for identifying and sampling webfonts

    2014 · typewolf.com · its alternatives →

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    Bublcam▲113

    Spherical Video Camera

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Turn text, pics, video, + 3D into camera-controlled HD video

    Sep 2026 · worldlabs.ai · its alternatives →

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    LiveSplat is a system for turning RGBD camera streams into Gaussian splat scenes in real-time. The system works by passing all the RGBD frames into a feed forward neural net that outputs the current scene as Gaussian splats. These splats are then rendered in real-time. I've put together a demo video at the link above.

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    This is a personal project I've been working on for a long time now. I stumbled upon the color quantization problem while doing something related for work. I then found an interesting paper for which I could find no implementations online, and the thing went from "let's implement this paper" to getting pretty obsessed with the whole thing. It's at an early, eaaaarly stage. There's a lot of work to be done, and it's a memory hog, but generally speaking works quite well, and the output is for the most part very high quality, so I'm happy to share it as beta.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We ported pbrt-v4 to Julia and built it into a Makie backend. Any Makie plot can now be rendered with physically-based path tracing. Julia compiles user-defined physics directly into GPU kernels, so anyone can extend the ray tracer with new materials and media - a black hole with gravitational lensing is ~200 lines of Julia. Runs on AMD, NVIDIA, and CPU via KernelAbstractions.jl, with Metal coming soon. Demo scenes: github.com/SimonDanisch/RayDemo

    Feb 2026 · makie.org · its alternatives →

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    Turn photos into 3D Gaussian Splats on your Mac

    Jun 2026 · radiancekit.de · its alternatives →

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    Eora 3D▲145

    High-precision 3D scanning on your smartphone

    2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Identify plants instantly with magical AR scanning

    2022 · greg.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN - My name is Andrew, and I'm a high school student. This is a write-up on StratoSpore, a payload I designed and launched to the stratosphere. The goal was to test if we could estimate physical altitude based on algae fluorescence (using a lightweight ML model trained on the sensor data). The blog post covers the full engineering mess/process, including: - The Hardware: Designing PCBs for the AS7263 spectral sensor and Pi Zero 2 W. -The biological altimeter: How I tried to correlate biological stress (fluorescence) with altitude. - The Communications: A custom lossy compression…

    Nov 2025 · radi8.dev · its alternatives →

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    A scanning LiDAR sensor

    2016 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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