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24 alternatives to 100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air
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100 Million Splats is a visualization application built natively in Metal and Swift for Apple Silicon Macs. It renders an entire town composed of 100 million splat effects, demonstrating the graphics capabilities of… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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RadianceKit▲95Turn photos into 3D Gaussian Splats on your Mac
Jun 2026 · radiancekit.de · its alternatives →
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I'm the co-creator and maintainer of https://aframe.io/ and long time Web 3D graphics dev. Super excited about new techniques to author / render / represent 3D. Spark is a an open source library to easily integrate Gaussian splats in your THREE.js scene I worked with some friends and I hope you find useful. Looking forward to hearing what features / rendering techniques you would love to see next.
2025 · sparkjs.dev · its alternatives →
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The Setup: https://i.imgur.com/o0hgybh.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/mcNiomp.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/vIjw6pc.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/nzOwmSC.jpeg
May 2026 · superspl.at · its alternatives →
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Apr 2026 · blog.playcanvas.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, author here. SHARP is Apple's recent single-image 3D Gaussian splatting model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685). Their reference code is PyTorch + a pretty heavy pipeline; I wanted to see if it could run in a browser with no server hop, so I exported the predictor to ONNX and ran it via onnxruntime-web with the WebGPU EP. What works: drop in an image, get a .ply you can download or preview live, all on your machine — your image never leaves the tab. The model is large (~2.4 GB sidecar) so first load is slow on a cold cache, but inference itself is a few seconds on…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · playcanvas.com · its alternatives →
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Glaze by Raycast▲647Create your own Mac apps by chatting with AI
Jul 2026 · glaze.app · its alternatives →
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Explore San Francisco
2025 · vincentwoo.com · its alternatives →
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TinyFast▲319I am a developer. I have been building stuff for the last 13 years. One common challenge in all my projects is compressing assets to make them as small as possible. I used to end up using online compressors, but this has a lot of privacy concerns. So, I finally set down for couple of weeks and built this simple app. I can just drag and drop assets in it and it shrinks them. It currently supports around 25 file types. I built a lot of iOS apps but this is the first time building a macOS app, so any feedback is welcome.
2025 · tinyfast.app · its alternatives →
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2023 · antimatter15.com · its alternatives →
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I ported Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 (4B parameter image-to-3D model) to run on Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. The original requires CUDA with flash_attn, nvdiffrast, and custom sparse convolution kernels: none of which work on Mac. I replaced the CUDA-specific ops with pure-PyTorch alternatives: a gather-scatter sparse 3D convolution, SDPA attention for sparse transformers, and a Python-based mesh extraction replacing CUDA hashmap operations. Total changes are a few hundred lines across 9 files. Generates ~400K vertex meshes from single photos in about 3.5 minutes on M4 Pro (24GB). Not as fast as…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Kite Compositor▲626A UI animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS
2017 · kiteapp.co · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I’m excited to share this open-source community mashup showing the power and possibility of combining 3D Gaussian splat scans with traditional mesh-based 3D tiles maps in the browser. As you've probably seen on HN a bunch lately, Gaussian splats are a new method to allow custom 3D scans of scenes and objects [1] and Google Maps 3D Tiles API are the same 3D buildings and street views your familiar with in Google Earth or Google Maps, and recently they’ve been made available for inclusion in web apps. Combining splats + 3d map mixes highly detailed real-world custom micro-scans with…
2024 · maps-and-splats.glitch.me · its alternatives →
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LiveSplat is a system for turning RGBD camera streams into Gaussian splat scenes in real-time. The system works by passing all the RGBD frames into a feed forward neural net that outputs the current scene as Gaussian splats. These splats are then rendered in real-time. I've put together a demo video at the link above.
2025 · its alternatives →
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Link to: http://shinyplasticbag.com/dragondrop/
2012 · daringfireball.net · its alternatives →
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GoProd for Mac▲272Remove backgrounds and upscale lots of pics in 1 click
2023 · icons8.com · its alternatives →
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ADS-B visualizer▲339I've created a web app for querying and visualization of ADS-B datasets: https://adsb.exposed/ Source code: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/ The results significantly exceeded my expectations because the pictures are insanely beautiful, and the data is a treasure trove. It proves many statements that were not certain: - it is feasible to generate tiles by aggregation on a pixel level (instead of hexagons or rectangular grid); - it does not require JPG/PNG tiles - we can transfer raw bitmap data with zstd compression; - it is possible to…
2024 · adsb.exposed · its alternatives →
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SPF▲97Mac app that lets you display a dark overlay over the screen
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a real-time flight tracker that renders 10,000+ aircraft on an interactive 3D globe, entirely in the browser using Rust compiled to WebAssembly.
Apr 2026 · flight-viz.com · its alternatives →
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I just launched SplatGallery, a platform where you can share and discover the best 3D models created with Gaussian Splatting. It's a super early stage and new models are coming it fairly often. Would love to get feedback from the HN community on how to improve it!
2024 · splatgallery.com · its alternatives →
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