Open-vocabulary text search fused into Google 3D Tiles across 27M voxels of San Francisco
bilawalsidhu · x · 2026-10-08
- A developer fused open-vocabulary text-aligned embeddings into Google 3D Tiles covering 27M voxels of San Francisco, enabling free-text search over the entire city in 3D.
- Search scores stream through a custom tile server into GPU textures for real-time rendering.
- Using the same index, they also built a night mode for Google 3D Tiles: lighting up 30% of "windows" plus street and bridge lights derived from "road" and "bridge" semantics.
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