Tools
Splashes that make something from what you bring, or measure what they show. Your files stay on your device.
Make and convert
3D Photo No. 01.16
A depth model guesses relative depth from one photo, not distances in meters.
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3D Video No. 01.17
A video is a string of photos, and a computer can guess how far away each part of a photo is.
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Model to Splats No. 01.06
A 3D model is usually a mesh: a net of flat triangles with colors or a picture (a texture) painted on them.
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Open your own files
Picture Lab No. 02.02
The Picture lab shows a page, a photo, a GIF or a video as Gaussian splats: thousands of small, flat, colored discs, the same stuff every splash here is made of.
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Splash Book No. 02.03
A book is a stack of pages bound along one edge, so you can turn them one at a time.
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Thermal Ellipsoids No. 04.01
Crystallography describes an atom's average position and spread with a displacement tensor.
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Scan and measure
Airport X-ray No. 09.01
An airport scanner sends a fan of X-rays through each bag as the belt carries it past, and a row of detectors measures what gets through, one line at a time.
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Electron Microscope No. 09.05
A scanning electron microscope sweeps a fine beam of electrons across a sample in a vacuum.
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CT Explained No. 09.02
A CT scanner (computed tomography) turns an X-ray tube and a curved row of detectors around the object, taking hundreds of views from every side.
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Walnut CT No. 09.03
This is a real walnut, scanned with X-ray CT at CWI in Amsterdam: more than a thousand X-ray pictures taken from all around it, worked back into a volume of how dense the walnut is at every point.
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Room Echo Meter No. 01.04
Reverberation is sound that keeps bouncing around a room after its source stops.
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Super-Res Microscope No. 04.02
Ordinary light microscopy struggles to separate nearby objects about 200 to 300 nanometers apart.
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QR codes
QR Damage Lab No. 01.09
QR codes still scan when part of them is lost, because error correction can rebuild missing codewords: about 7, 15, 25 or 30 percent at levels L, M, Q and H.
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Triple QR No. 01.10
One square holds three QR codes here: the first sets each module's red, the second its green and the third its blue.
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Sound and light
Chladni Plate No. 01.02
In 1787 Ernst Chladni sprinkled sand on a metal plate and drew a violin bow along its edge.
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Screen No. 02.06
A screen made of splats shows a video or a GIF: every pixel of the picture is a small splat whose color changes with each frame.
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Splat Mirror No. 01.05
Tap “Start camera” and each splat takes the color of its place in the picture, so the mirror shows you, live.
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In every Splash
Every Splash takes the same effects: Poke, Wind, Dissolve, Twist, Slice, Drop, Magnet, Paint, Move, and Clay. They are in the Playground's Effects sheet, each with its own settings.
Views show how splats work: Cutaway, Show the splats, Heat map, and Scrub and slow motion.
Make and share
Save a picture, a turntable video, a GIF, or a PDF that carries the Splash's credits. Record up to a minute with sound. Copy a link that keeps the view, the effects, and the splat count. Share and embed has every option.