3D model from Matthew Tancik. Photo by author.[Note: this article includes a Google Colab notebook. Feel free to use it if you wish to follow along.] IntroductionNeRF ExplosionThe Neural Radiance Field, or NeRF, is a fairly new paradigm in the world of deep learning and computer vision. Introduced in the ECCV 2020 paper “NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis” (whic