View SPLAT files in your browser
The plain splat format of the first web viewers, 32 bytes a splat. Open one right here, with nothing to install. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your capture opens in 3D, the right way up and fitted to its middle.
- Turn, zoom and move through it • Double click to center
- Fit • Front, right and top views
- A dark, light or no background
- Export • Save the view as PNG
About SPLAT
Kevin Kwok made the .splat format in 2023 for his WebGL viewer of Gaussian splats, one of the first, by cutting each splat of a PLY capture down to what a screen needs. Web viewers and splat tools have read and saved it since.
A .splat has no header: 32 bytes for each splat, its position and size as floats, its color and opacity in four bytes and its turn in four more, usually sorted with the biggest and most solid first.
Filepeek reads it in your browser and draws it with Spark, an open renderer of splats, turned the right way up and fitted to the middle of the capture. Turn it, zoom and move through it, put a dark, light or no background behind it, and save the view as PNG.
Gaussian Splats
.splat
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Kevin Kwok
- Released
- 2023
Inside the file
- Splats
- 32 bytes each, with no header
- Position
- Three floats
- Size
- Three floats
- Color
- Red, green, blue and opacity, a byte each
Opens in every browser
Browsers download .splat files, and splat viewers are the usual way to see one. Filepeek opens them in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on computers and phones.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Questions
How do I open a .splat file?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek a SPLAT. The capture opens at once in 3D, with nothing to install.
Why is it upside down?
Most captures are saved the way the cameras that made them see, with up pointing down, so Filepeek turns them over. When one comes out the wrong way, choose Turn it over.
Why does it look flatter than its PLY?
A .splat keeps one color for each splat, not the harmonics that make colors change with the angle, so shiny things look duller than in the PLY it came from.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The capture opens inside your browser and never leaves your device.