About

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 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.