3D Gaussian splatting, explained
June 2026 · Méridien
An interactive explainer of 3D Gaussian splatting: how photographs of real places and objects become scenes you can move through. Made at Méridien with Datum and Gezin Studio.
The task
Made at Méridien: explain an emerging 3D technology to a general reader without losing the technical ground, and let the reader feel it rather than read about it.
The result
A scroll-driven explainer live at 3dgs-explainer.mrdn.world, built around seven experimental splat scenes captured for the piece. The demonstration flower, a King protea, is 300,000 splats in a 6.6 MB file. Made with Datum (scenes and production) and Gezin Studio (video and photography).
My role: made at Méridien.
- Seven splat scenes built for the piece
- The King protea: 300,000 splats, 6.6 MB
- 20+ sources, 10+ expert contributors
- June 2026
From the explainer
