About
A free collection of 3D Gaussian splats that runs in your browser.
Who makes it
Splashery is made by Ryan Kamp. 3D Gaussian splats make stunning scans of real things, but they are usually something you only watch. Splashery asks what happens if you can play with them.
Needs Ryan's words: The maker's line and why this exists, in his own voice.
What it is
Every Splash is drawn with 3D Gaussian splats: soft, colored blobs that together make a capture of a real thing, or a shape built from a recipe. There are 460 Splashes on 29 shelves today, from captures to atoms, planets, math, and games, plus tools that turn your own photos, pages, and sounds into splats.
You can poke, paint, blow on, drop, and dissolve them, then share one as a link, an embed, a GIF, or a video. It is plain web pages and code, with no app to install and no account.
What a splat is explains the idea, with live demos.
Offline
The Playground keeps each Splash you open on your device, so it opens again with no connection, up to 1 GB of Splashes. Past that, the one you opened longest ago goes first. You can install the Playground from your browser to keep it in your Dock or on your Home Screen.
The rest of this site, the The Splash Manual, and a Splash you haven't opened need a connection.
What it promises
- Nothing you open leaves your device. Files, photos, pages, and songs are turned into splats in your browser. Privacy has the details.
- Everything is credited. Every capture, picture, sound, and dataset is credited beside its Splash and on the credits page. Where a maker's name or logo was painted over, the credit says so, and How marks are painted over shows how.
- No tracking, no cookies, no ads.
- Old links keep working. A Splash you shared last month still opens.
The fox on the first page
The Felted Fox is 1,000,000 splats. The first page leaves out the 5,828 largest, faint ones around it, which are haze from training and not fox, and splits the other 994,172 in two along their longest axis, again and again. Each parent is the mean, covariance, color, and opacity of its two children, so the one blob you start with is the real average of the whole fox, and every number on the dial is an exact count. A level's file loads only when you stop there.
Come back and someone else is in the chair: Saturn, the Chess Set, or the Muscle Car, each split the same way from the splats the Playground draws. Each one's credit is on its slip at the end of the exam.
The green mark on the dial is measured on your screen: it counts the pixels the subject covers in the lens. Past that mark there are more splats than pixels to show them.
The type
The large letters are Optician Sans, by ANTI Hamar and Fábio Duarte Martins, a full typeface grown from the ten optotype letters on eye charts. Everything else is Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Mono, from the Braille Institute's family of letters drawn to stay apart for low-vision readers. Both are under the SIL Open Font License.
The small print
The code is under the MIT license, and each Splash's assets keep their own licenses. See Credits, How to cite, Privacy, Terms, and Contact.