Knowledge Base

Fundamentals & intuition

• What is a Gaussian splat?
  Intro3 minVerified 2026-07-09
• How splats render
  Intro4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Splats vs. the alternatives
  Intro4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• The splat pipeline, end to end
  Intro4 minVerified 2026-07-09

The math

• 3D Gaussians and covariance
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Spherical harmonics and view-dependent colour
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Differentiable rasterisation
  Deep5 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Densification and pruning
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09

Capture strategy

• Capture overview
  Intro4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Exteriors and drone capture
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Interior capture
  Working5 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Camera settings for capture
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09

SfM & COLMAP

• SfM fundamentals
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• COLMAP in practice
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Troubleshooting registration failures
  Deep5 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Coordinate systems: COLMAP vs the engine
  Working5 minVerified 2026-07-09

Training

• Training fundamentals
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Tools landscape
  Working5 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Evaluating quality
  Working5 minVerified 2026-07-09

Compression & formats

• Format landscape
  Working5 minVerified 2026-07-09
• The SOG format
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Size versus quality
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09

Web delivery

• Rendering splats in the browser
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• PlayCanvas and SuperSplat
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Splats in three.js, Babylon and beyond
  Working3 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Performance budgets, streaming and LOD
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09

Editing & tooling

• Editing and cleanup
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• Segmentation and semantics
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09
• The 2026 tool landscape by pipeline stage
  Working4 minVerified 2026-07-09

Landmark papers

Glossary