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Dev tools · April 14, 2026

Tsplat – Render Gaussian Splats directly in your terminal

Last week I wanted to quickly view some Gaussian splats which I had trained on a remote server that didn’t have any open ports or a display device. So I ended up downloading everything locally just to inspect the results This weekend I put together a terminal-based Gaussian splats viewer that renders directly in the terminal. It works over SSH and currently runs on CPU only and written in rust with claude code. I’ve found it to be pretty useful for quickly checking which .ply files correspond to which scenes and getting a rough sense of their quality. Along the way, I also wrote a small…

Tsplat – Render Gaussian Splats directly in your terminal launched on April 14, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,538 of 21,248 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Enjoy gaussian splatting in your terminal, supports xterm, kitty, gnome, works over SSH - darshanmakwana412/tsplat

In the maker’s words, at launch

Last week I wanted to quickly view some Gaussian splats which I had trained on a remote server that didn’t have any open ports or a display device. So I ended up downloading everything locally just to inspect the results This weekend I put together a terminal-based Gaussian splats viewer that renders directly in the…

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