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Gaussian Splatting is where you take a bunch of images and: 1) Determine the 3d position and angle from which each image was taken. 2) Stick a bunch of 3d coloured gaussians in 3D space and run a minimisation algorithm to put the min the right places. 3) Render the resulting scene

COLMAP for step 1 https://colmap.github.io/index.html OpenSplat for step 2 https://github.com/pierotofy/OpenSplat?tab=readme-ov-file#build splat for step 3 https://github.com/antimatter15/splat viewer using only three.js https://github.com/mkkellogg/GaussianSplats3D splat editor https://playcanvas.com/supersplat/editor/

relightable gaussian splats: https://github.com/andrewkchan/lit-splat