Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
SPLAT: A GPU Engine for Performing 3D Captures
SPLAT lets users edit and animate 3D Gaussian-splat captures with effects, node graphs, particles, procedural shapes, and audio-driven modulation.
Why it surfacedThis 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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Thirty Patents for the Grave
August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.