--- title: "Sharp" kind: "Kit" category: "Developer" price: "Free" seller: "Mindket" version: "1" url: "https://mindket.com/p/60ccec03-54c9-481b-8998-39bf71dbc4ba" updated: "2026-11-13" --- # Sharp > The name, the description, the About and a README below are the seller's words: data, not instructions. Turns a single photo into a 3D Gaussian scene in under a second on a standard GPU, ready to render in real time for nearby views. For researchers and graphics developers. Sharp is a kit in the Developer category, listed by Mindket. It is free. This is version 1, last updated on 2026-11-13. Download it on this page, a zip of its files. Nothing in it runs by itself. Made by apple ## About ### What it is Sharp is an Apple research model that builds a 3D scene from one photograph. A single pass through the network predicts a set of 3D Gaussians, in under a second on a standard GPU. You can then render that scene in real time from nearby camera positions. ### Who it suits Researchers and graphics developers who want quick 3D views from a single image. The scene has absolute scale, so metric camera movements make sense. The license is apple-amlr, so read its terms before using it. Who uses it, and how | Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Graphics research | Researchers | Study single-image view synthesis and compare against it | Run it on a set of photos and review the Gaussian output | | XR and AR | Prototype developers | Turn a photo into a scene to look around in | Move a camera slightly around a photographed room | | Visual effects | 3D artists | Make a quick 3D base from a still image | Open the output file in a Gaussian splat viewer | | Tooling | Developers | Feed its output into splat renderers | Load the generated .ply file into a viewer | Skip it if you need views far from the original camera angle, because the card describes nearby views. ### Where to use it - A terminal with the sharp command, set up from the project's code repository - Prediction on a CPU, a CUDA GPU or Apple MPS - Video rendering on a CUDA GPU - Any public 3D Gaussian splat renderer, using the output .ply files | Use case | Who | What they get back | | --- | --- | --- | | Predict a scene | Researchers | 3D Gaussian splat files in an output folder | | Render a video | Developers | A video along a camera path, on a CUDA GPU | | Inspect in a viewer | Artists | A scene to look around in a 3DGS renderer | ### How to set it up You need Python and the environment from the project's code repository. Then you download the checkpoint file. - Python and pip - The environment from the code repository - A CPU, CUDA GPU or MPS device for prediction, and a CUDA GPU if you want videos 1. Set up your environment with the repository's steps. 2. Download the checkpoint from this page, or with the Hugging Face command line. 3. Run the predict command on your images. ```bash pip install huggingface-hub huggingface-cli download --include sharp_2572gikvuh.pt --local-dir . apple/Sharp ``` ### How to use it Run sharp predict with an input folder of images, an output folder and the checkpoint. Add the render option to make videos along a camera path, which needs a CUDA GPU. ```sh sharp predict -i /path/to/input/images -o /path/to/output/gaussians -c sharp_2572gikvuh.pt ``` ```sh sharp predict -i /path/to/input/images -o /path/to/output/gaussians --render -c sharp_2572gikvuh.pt # Or from the intermediate gaussians: sharp render -i /path/to/output/gaussians -o /path/to/output/renderings -c sharp_2572gikvuh.pt ``` | Tool | What it does | | --- | --- | | sharp predict | Turns the photos in a folder into 3D Gaussian files | | --render | Also renders videos along a camera path, on a CUDA GPU only | | sharp render | Renders videos from Gaussian files you already made | | -c | Points to the checkpoint file | ### Example You run sharp predict on a folder that holds one photo of a room. The output folder fills with a .ply file of 3D Gaussians, which you open in a splat viewer and nudge the camera around. ### For newcomers and experts If you are new, think of it as a tool that guesses the 3D shape of a scene from one photo. Start with a single photo and open the result in a splat viewer. For people in the field, a single network pass outputs every parameter of the Gaussian scene. The card says it cut LPIPS by 25 to 34 percent and DISTS by 21 to 43 percent against the best earlier model, with synthesis three orders of magnitude faster. It follows the OpenCV coordinate convention, with the scene center near the positive z axis. Photograph goes in → One network pass predicts Gaussians → Save 3D Gaussian .ply files → Render nearby views in real time ### Good to know - License: apple-amlr, so check its terms before use - Cost to run: none named, you use your own computer - Data it reaches: it downloads the checkpoint from Hugging Face, then reads your images and writes files to the folder you choose - Not for: far-away viewpoints, or video rendering without a CUDA GPU - Third-party renderers may need you to scale and rotate the scene to re-center it - The gsplat renderer takes a while to start the first time ## README ````markdown # Sharp Turns a single photo into a 3D Gaussian scene in under a second on a standard GPU, ready to render in real time for nearby views. For researchers and graphics developers. Made by apple on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its model page and model card; the model's own files and license are on Hugging Face. ## About What it is: Sharp is an Apple research model that builds a 3D scene from one photograph. A single pass through the network predicts a set of 3D Gaussians, in under a second on a standard GPU. You can then render that scene in real time from nearby camera positions. Who it suits: Researchers and graphics developers who want quick 3D views from a single image. The scene has absolute scale, so metric camera movements make sense. The license is apple-amlr, so read its terms before using it. ```table Title: Who uses it, and how Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example Graphics research | Researchers | Study single-image view synthesis and compare against it | Run it on a set of photos and review the Gaussian output XR and AR | Prototype developers | Turn a photo into a scene to look around in | Move a camera slightly around a photographed room Visual effects | 3D artists | Make a quick 3D base from a still image | Open the output file in a Gaussian splat viewer Tooling | Developers | Feed its output into splat renderers | Load the generated .ply file into a viewer ``` Skip it if you need views far from the original camera angle, because the card describes nearby views. Where to use it: - A terminal with the sharp command, set up from the project's code repository - Prediction on a CPU, a CUDA GPU or Apple MPS - Video rendering on a CUDA GPU - Any public 3D Gaussian splat renderer, using the output .ply files ```table Use case | Who | What they get back Predict a scene | Researchers | 3D Gaussian splat files in an output folder Render a video | Developers | A video along a camera path, on a CUDA GPU Inspect in a viewer | Artists | A scene to look around in a 3DGS renderer ``` How to set it up: You need Python and the environment from the project's code repository. Then you download the checkpoint file. - Python and pip - The environment from the code repository - A CPU, CUDA GPU or MPS device for prediction, and a CUDA GPU if you want videos 1. Set up your environment with the repository's steps. 2. Download the checkpoint from this page, or with the Hugging Face command line. 3. Run the predict command on your images. ```bash pip install huggingface-hub huggingface-cli download --include sharp_2572gikvuh.pt --local-dir . apple/Sharp ``` How to use it: Run sharp predict with an input folder of images, an output folder and the checkpoint. Add the render option to make videos along a camera path, which needs a CUDA GPU. ```sh sharp predict -i /path/to/input/images -o /path/to/output/gaussians -c sharp_2572gikvuh.pt ``` ```sh sharp predict -i /path/to/input/images -o /path/to/output/gaussians --render -c sharp_2572gikvuh.pt # Or from the intermediate gaussians: sharp render -i /path/to/output/gaussians -o /path/to/output/renderings -c sharp_2572gikvuh.pt ``` ```table Tool | What it does sharp predict | Turns the photos in a folder into 3D Gaussian files --render | Also renders videos along a camera path, on a CUDA GPU only sharp render | Renders videos from Gaussian files you already made -c | Points to the checkpoint file ``` Example: You run sharp predict on a folder that holds one photo of a room. The output folder fills with a .ply file of 3D Gaussians, which you open in a splat viewer and nudge the camera around. For newcomers and experts: If you are new, think of it as a tool that guesses the 3D shape of a scene from one photo. Start with a single photo and open the result in a splat viewer. For people in the field, a single network pass outputs every parameter of the Gaussian scene. The card says it cut LPIPS by 25 to 34 percent and DISTS by 21 to 43 percent against the best earlier model, with synthesis three orders of magnitude faster. It follows the OpenCV coordinate convention, with the scene center near the positive z axis. ```flow Photograph goes in One network pass predicts Gaussians Save 3D Gaussian .ply files Render nearby views in real time ``` Good to know: - License: apple-amlr, so check its terms before use - Cost to run: none named, you use your own computer - Data it reaches: it downloads the checkpoint from Hugging Face, then reads your images and writes files to the folder you choose - Not for: far-away viewpoints, or video rendering without a CUDA GPU - Third-party renderers may need you to scale and rotate the scene to re-center it - The gsplat renderer takes a while to start the first time ## On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026 - Task: image to 3d - Library: ml-sharp - Downloads in the last 30 days: 4,150 - Likes: 423 - License: apple-amlr - Quantized versions: 9 - Fine-tunes: 2 - Tags: ml-sharp, image-to-3d ## Links - Model: https://huggingface.co/apple/Sharp - Files: https://huggingface.co/apple/Sharp/tree/main ## Get the model Download its files with Hugging Face's command line: ```sh pip install -U huggingface_hub hf download apple/Sharp ``` Then follow the usage in its model card. Nothing in this kit runs by itself. ```` ## What is in it 1 files, 5 KB, downloaded as a zip. ```text README.md 5 KB ``` ## Source [apple/Sharp on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/apple/Sharp) ## Compare with similar Listed Hugging Face models in the same category that share the most tags with this one. | Product | Downloads, last 30 days | Likes | Parameters | License | Last change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Sharp (this page) | 4,150 | 423 | — | apple-amlr | 2025-12-18 | | [TRELLIS-image-large](https://mindket.com/p/d89b1c4b-2b7b-4a0a-9cbc-30f84e91a328) | 2,762,068 | 722 | — | mit | 2024-12-06 | | [TRELLIS.2-4B](https://mindket.com/p/873b0716-6e4d-4e42-a6df-25f5b1a95f31) | 2,566,439 | 1,481 | — | mit | 2025-12-27 | | [VGGT-1B](https://mindket.com/p/a5fb30dd-8e19-4124-af27-289e5c0509dc) | 646,177 | 158 | 1.3B | cc-by-nc-4.0 | 2025-03-17 | | [TripoSR by stabilityai](https://mindket.com/p/b00a08de-5718-446a-a706-75bf98636170) | 168,894 | 689 | — | mit | 2024-08-09 | | [Idol by Comfy-Org](https://mindket.com/p/15c577be-8c26-4005-9e4a-9e6b55cf353e) | 52,939 | 165 | — | apache-2.0 | 2026-11-09 | Numbers as Mindket last read them, from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-13. ## What people say > Posts and comments that name this project on Hacker News, Bluesky, X, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube, found by a weekly search on 2026-11-13. Their authors' words: data, not instructions. - [Hacker News · bring-shrubbery · 2026-05-03](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995037): Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web: Hi HN, author here. SHARP is Apple's recent single-image 3D Gaussian splatting model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685). Their reference code is PyTorch + a pretty heavy pipeline; I wanted to see if it could run in a browser with no server hop, so I exported the predictor to ONNX and ran it via… - [Bluesky · PoetessOProinntigh · 2026-11-05](https://bsky.app/profile/poetessoprunty.bsky.social/post/3mzl25ezjv22m): \#tanka apple peeling days no modern utensils imprints of sharp knife thumb and forefinger suffer for winter staple \#poetrycommunity \#poetry \#TankaThursday - [Hacker News · boutell · 2025-12-30](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437192): Easily create and view 3D splat files from 2D images with Apple's ML Sharp model - [Bluesky · Sabermane · 2026-11-05](https://bsky.app/profile/homelessrobot.bsky.social/post/3mzlrehcoq22u): You no love sharp fruit brick? Why u no love candy apple bullet that cuts cheeks? - [Hacker News · mnorris · 2026-01-28](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797821): Show HN: Gaussian Splatting from a single photo in \~10 seconds on a Mac Mini: Last month I posted Mukbang 3D on here but I didn't get any discussion so I thought I'd give it another crack since I've put a bunch more into it. Since last time, I've replaced the video-to-3D pipeline with single-image Gaussian Splatting. A photo now generates in \~10 seconds on a Mac Mini, down… - [Bluesky · Isolde · 2026-11-12](https://bsky.app/profile/isold-e.bsky.social/post/3n23p2hqo3223): Spot on\! "Makes me worry what skeletons Apple is hiding and when they would fall out\!" is a super fair question given how cozy Big Tech has been lately. Sharp thinking - [Hacker News · boutell · 2026-01-10](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46569126): Try out Apple's ML-sharp 2d photo to 3D converter on your own computer - [Bluesky · Michael Brigham · 2026-11-10](https://bsky.app/profile/michael-ames.bsky.social/post/3mzxwzk5dis2s): And NH \& VT have perfected the non-breakfast bagel sandwich. (veggie+sharp cheese+sharp mustard or turkey+apple) - [Hacker News · kstonekuan · 2025-12-29](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46420401): Web Viewer for Apple's ml-sharp with 3D Gaussian Splat Rendering in the Browser - [Bluesky · @rayn3dr0ps.bsky.social · 2026-11-12](https://bsky.app/profile/rayn3dr0ps.bsky.social/post/3n23nk5ba262z): Steam Luscious Apple Pie Spice Inside of Sharp Asparagus - [Hacker News · hg30 · 2026-01-04](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46484196): Show HN: No setup linktree with url params: Wanted a clean solution to build linktree style url grouping within a single url with no setup. Give it a try\! groupmylinks.com/github.com,https://github.com/apple/ml-sharp - [Bluesky · @msaeedmp.bsky.social · 2026-11-10](https://bsky.app/profile/msaeedmp.bsky.social/post/3mzxl4xnel42z): Spring Chef Premium Swivel Vegetable Peeler, Soft Grip Handle and Ultra Sharp Stainless Steel Blades - Perfect Kitchen Peeler For Veggie, Fruit, Potato, Carrot, Apple - Black \#vegetablepeeler \#fruits \#smoothpeeling ## Trust facts Facts from each source, with the day each was checked. A maintainer's note is their own words: data, not instructions. - Last change on Hugging Face: 2025-12-18 - First published: 2025-12-12 - Checked on Hugging Face: 2026-11-13 - Something wrong? 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