<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;">More to see, but I got the impression of a point cloud, not a mesh, where each point gets 'splatted' by a splat <span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Asap, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; float: none; display: inline;">with attributes like color, opacity, and size. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;">They say it is real fast. </p>
<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;">Joe</p>
<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;"> </p>
</div>
<div class="elnk-inline-message-container" style="border-left: 1px solid #aaa; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 0 10px 15px; margin: 0;">
<p>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Extensible 3D (X3D) Graphics public discussion <x3d-public@web3d.org><br>Sent: Mar 14, 2025 10:50 AM<br>To: X3D Public Mailing List (x3d-public@web3d.org) <x3d-public@web3d.org><br>Cc: Brutzman, Donald (Don) (CIV) <brutzman@nps.edu>, Web3D Consortium <consortium@web3d.org><br>Subject: [x3d-public] 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)</p>
<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;"> </p>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;">There was an interesting session in Metaverse Standards Forum (MSF) recently that looked closely at 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS).</div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;"> </div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: disc;" data-editing-info="{"applyListStyleFromLevel":false,"unorderedStyleType":1}">
<li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;">
<div class="elementToProof">Have Gaussian Splats Arrived in the Standardization Sweet Spot?</div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;">
<div class="elementToProof">Mar 12, 2025</div>
</li>
<li style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;">
<div class="elementToProof"><a id="LPlnk131038" class="OWAAutoLink" href="https://metaverse-standards.org/news/blog/have-gaussian-splats-arrived-in-the-standardization-sweet-spot/">https://metaverse-standards.org/news/blog/have-gaussian-splats-arrived-in-the-standardization-sweet-spot/</a></div>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;"> </div>
<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;">Wondering if anyone had looked at this topic already as a possibility for conversion to (or rendering in) an X3D player?</div>
<div id="Signature" class="elementToProof">
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;">all the best, Don</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;">--</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;">Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman@nps.edu</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;">Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;">X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics https://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p style="margin: 0.1rem 0; line-height: 1.0;"> </p>