Amazing work, I especially love that you put all of them online to view. The bumblebee is my favorite, so fuzzy

That's quite the improvement over Stars/NoooN [1] showing off real-time rendering of (supposedly) 23,806 triangles on a 486.

[1] https://youtu.be/wEiBxHOGYps

The results are incredibly clean! Feathers and flowers could be interesting.

Black text on a dark grey background is nearly unreadable - I used Reader Mode.

This looks amazing, and never thought to combine macro photography and Gaussian splatting.

I'd also like to show my gratitude for you releasing this as a free culture file! (CC BY)

I wonder if there's research into fitting gaussian splats that are dependent on focus distance? Basically as a way of modeling bokeh - you'd feed the raw, unstacked shots and get a sharp-everywhere model back.

How does it capture the reflection (the iridescence of the fly's body)? It's almost as if I can see the background through the reflection.

I would have thought that since that reflection has a different color in different directions, gaussian splat generation would have a hard time coming to a solution that satisfies all of the rays. Or at the very least, that a reflective surface would turn out muddy rather than properly reflective-looking.

Is there some clever trickery that's happening here, or am I misunderstanding something about gaussian splats?