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Life & fun · December 15, 2025

100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air

Written natively from scratch in Metal and Swift. Build for AirVis app.

100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air launched on December 15, 2025 with 81 votes, #374 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

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 the M2 MacBook Air. The app was created as part of the AirVis project and showcases real-time rendering performance on native Apple hardware.

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From the sources

100 Million splats , a whole town, rendered in real time without any preprocessing in M2 MacBook Air. Scan by : @AndriiShramko. Rendered by: AirVis engine.

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