SuperSplat is a free online editor for 3D Gaussian Splats
PlayCanvas developer Will Eastcott has launched SuperSplat, a free browser-based tool for loading, visualizing and editing 3D Gaussian Splats.
Source code for SuperSplat 1.0, the first stable release of the tool, is available on GitHub under an open-source MIT license.
3DGS: a new AI-based technique for reconstructing 3D scenes from source images
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a new 3D scene reconstruction technique.
Like photogrammetry, it begins by generating a point cloud of a 3D scene from source photos, but rather than converting the point cloud to a textured mesh, it converts it to gaussians, using machine learning to determined the correct color for each.
The result is a high-quality and potentially fast-rendering 3D representation of the object or scene being scanned.
View and edit 3DGS data for free in a standard web browser
SuperSplat makes it possible to import and edit 3DGS data in a standard web browser.
Users can import data in PLY format, and hide, remove or re-orient individual splats, or select and crop out larger parts of the scan using volume selection tools.
The edited scene can be re-exported in PLY format.
Support for 3D Gaussian Splats was originally introduced in PlayCanvas, the open-source HTML5 game engine co-developed by Will Eastcott.
Other free tools for generating and rendering 3DGS data
Scanning technology firm Polycam has an online tool for generating 3D Gaussian Splats, which can be used for free on up to 100 source images, or 15 seconds of video.
For importing 3DGS data in PLY format into DCC applications for rendering, check out these free plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine 5.
Licensing and system requirements
SuperSplat can be used for free in a web browser. It should work with current desktop browsers. The source code is available under an open-source MIT license.
Use the free online SuperSplat 3D Gaussian Splat editor
Read more about SuperSplat in the project’s GitHub repository
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