About
A free collection of 3D Gaussian splats that runs in your browser.
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.
How the machine works
The claw machine on the home page holds every Splash, really piled up. Each toy is a small cloud of splats fitted to pictures of the full Splash: about 48 splats from far away, and up to 1,024 up close. Its shape in the pile is one to four spheres fitted to that cloud, so a long thing lies long and a round thing rolls.
Your device runs the heap's physics 120 times a second. A toy that stops moving falls asleep until something touches it, which is why 460 of them cost almost nothing once they settle. The machine is restocked at midnight, New York time, in a new order each day. Until then it remembers the heap as you left it, hole and all.
The claw's grip is one number, and nothing changes it. Over 2,000 grabs at random spots on 20 fresh heaps, run with the site's own code on November 2, 2026, the claw lifted something 72.3% of the time, and 43.2% of grabs ended with a prize in the chute. Each shelf has its own smaller machine with only that shelf inside.
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.