Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Maps and Splats – Mashup of 3D tile maps with Gaussian Splats
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…
Maps and Splats is an open-source web application that combines 3D Gaussian splat scans with Google Maps 3D Tiles to display detailed custom scene captures alongside satellite-based building data in a single browser… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Maps and Splats – Mashup of 3D tile maps with Gaussian Splats launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2023 · antimatter15.com · its alternatives →
- 2SO
2024 · playcanvas.com · its alternatives →
- 3TA
Apr 2026 · blog.playcanvas.com · 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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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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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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Explore San Francisco
2025 · vincentwoo.com · its alternatives →
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Google released an API in May to get fetch 3D Tiles of anywhere on Earth. Using this in standard 3D engines like Blender is tricky because (1) the tiles are in a geographic coordinate system (2) you get a lot of little tiles at varying quality levels I wanted to simplify this so all you need to do is get an API key, select a map region and a zoom level, and get one combined glTF file that you can throw into any engine. Especially if you're just prototyping and want to see how this data looks in your engine before investing in figuring out all the nuances of the API & coordinate system. (Note…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 9RT
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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RadianceKit▲95Turn photos into 3D Gaussian Splats on your Mac
Jun 2026 · radiancekit.de · its alternatives →
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Bitmap & tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics - mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Splatara▲8Visualize any project over time with 3D Gaussian Splatting
2025 · splatara.cloud · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…
2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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MapHub allows you to create, share and collaborate interactive maps online.
2016 · maphub.net · its alternatives →
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TravelAnimator▲536Turn Google Maps URLs into stunning map animations.
Jan 2026 · travelanimator.com · its alternatives →
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Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast - onthegomap/planetiler
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Splattr▲7Create 3D Gaussian Splats in the cloud, no setup required
2025 · splattr.app · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I'm the author of this toy project that combines the idea of live-edit Shadertoy scenes with the popular gaussian splatting, aka 3DGS. You can write a GLSL function that defines the splats and see it rendered in real-time. Your GLSL code isn't stored anywhere, but you can share it via URL. P.S. I'm not a Spark developer. I'm just using their rendering engine.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20Wworldsplat▲70
Sketch in 3D then generate the scene instantly
Sep 2026 · worldsplat.app · its alternatives →
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Virtual Meetups through Jitsi. Contribute to capnmidnight/Calla development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I was playing with this for a few weeks over the holiday break. This is one of the GS3D sample scenes running on PCVR at about 65 FPS. I'm sorting on the CPU at the moment, so there are some hitches, but it works! I may publish this as a Unity asset. (I'd love to get it working on Vision Pro, but we'll see.)
2024 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
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Photoshop but it’s for Gaussian splats and 3D worlds
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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- Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting in WebGL alternatives
- SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor alternatives
- Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame alternatives
- Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js alternatives
- SplatGallery – A Community-Driven Gallery for Gaussian Splats alternatives
- Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry alternatives
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