SPLAT

Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is an emerging 3D scene representation method in recent years. It uses millions of 3D Gaussian ellipsoids to achieve photorealistic novel view synthesis on consumer GPUs, rendering in real time at 100+ FPS. It is widely applied in the next generation of scene reconstruction and digital human fields following NeRF.

SPLAT is the native container format for Gaussian Splatting. It is completely different from mesh systems: it has no editable topology and cannot be directly used for 3D printing or traditional modeling workflows. The current ecosystem also includes compressed variants such as SPZ, KSPLAT, and SOG, which are used to speed up web-side loading.