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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13

SPLAT: A GPU Engine for Performing 3D Captures

splatnoir.com ↗ · Developer Corner · score 88.0
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SPLAT lets users edit and animate 3D Gaussian-splat captures with effects, node graphs, particles, procedural shapes, and audio-driven modulation.

Why it surfaced

This is unusually specific software: its homepage exposes 142 effect types, a composer with 21 math operations, and a shared graph that can either displace splats or drive particles. It treats a captured room less like a static scan than a programmable performance surface.

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.