A Comprehensive Introduction and Overview of Gaussian Splats, Part 2 – Creating Gaussian Splats: From Photos to a Trained Model
In Part 1 we took the term apart. We covered what "splat" means, what "Gaussian" means, where the technique came from (radiance fields, then NeRFs in 2020, then the INRIA 3D Gaussian Splatting paper at SIGGRAPH 2023), and why anyone bothered to invent it in the first place. The one-word answer was speed. A NeRF[…]
September 15, 2026
