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Every capture, picture, sound, dataset, and library in Splashery.
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- AI pictures by Ryan Kamp
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- Photo to 3D failure atlas
- Picture QR fit
- Moving photo to 3D
- Neuron specimen
- Step inside a 360° photo
- Libraries and models
By Splash
Studio
Pictures and Pages
AI and Computing
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| ConvNet | Optical Recognition of Handwritten Digits (UCI Machine Learning Repository) | E. Alpaydin and C. Kaynak (1998) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Gaussian Splatting | Strawberry on white background (the photo the splats learn) | Joselodos | CC0 1.0 |
| Word Vectors | GloVe: Global Vectors for Word Representation (Wikipedia 2014 + Gigaword 5, 50 dimensions) | Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher and Christopher D. Manning | ODC Public Domain Dedication and License 1.0 |
Science
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Table sugar (sucrose) (COD 2300557) | A. O. Dmitrienko and I. S. Bushmarinov (Journal of Applied Crystallography 48, 2015), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Urea (COD 1566505) | P. N. Ruth, R. Herbst-Irmer and D. Stalke (IUCrJ 9 286, 2022), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) (COD 2300646) | C. J. McMonagle and M. R. Probert (Journal of Applied Crystallography 52 445, 2019), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Vanillin (the taste of vanilla) (COD 7242089) | S. Sundareswaran and S. Karuppannan (CrystEngComm 23 1634, 2021), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Capsaicin (the heat of chili peppers) (COD 2312782) | M. Lozinšek (Acta crystallographica. Section C, Structural chemistry 81 188, 2025), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Aspirin (COD 2104857) | E. J. Chan, T. R. Welberry, A. P. Heerdegen and D. J. Goossens (Acta Crystallographica Section B 66 696, 2010), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Acetaminophen (paracetamol) (COD 7232757) | M. R. Ward and I. D. H. Oswald (CrystEngComm 21 4437, 2019), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Ibuprofen (neutron) (COD 2006278) | N. Shankland, C. C. Wilson, A. J. Florence and P. J. Cox (Acta Crystallographica Section C 53 951, 1997), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Vitamin B3 (nicotinamide, neutron) (COD 2003053) | Y. Miwa, T. Mizuno, K. Tsuchida et al. (Acta Crystallographica, Section B 55 78, 1999), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Salicylic acid (from willow bark) (COD 2100548) | P. Munshi and T. N. Guru Row (Acta Crystallographica Section B 62 612, 2006), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Morphine (COD 2237167) | T. Gelbrich, D. E. Braun and U. J. Griesser (Acta Crystallographica Section E 69 o2, 2013), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Glycine, an amino acid (neutron) (COD 2103308) | P. Langan, S. A. Mason, D. Myles and B. P. Schoenborn (Acta Crystallographica Section B 58 728, 2002), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Cytosine, a letter of DNA (COD 2019803) | B. Sridhar, J. B. Nanubolu and K. Ravikumar (Acta Crystallographica Section C 71, 2015), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Guanine, a letter of DNA (COD 2015488) | K. Guille and W. Clegg (Acta Crystallographica Section C 62 o515, 2006), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Serotonin, a messenger in the brain (COD 2244048) | M. Naeem, A. R. Chadeayne, J. A. Golen and D. R. Manke (Acta Crystallographica Section E 78, 2022), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | NAD+, a helper molecule in every cell (COD 1507221) | B. Guillot, N. Muzet, E. Artacho et al. (The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107 9109, 2003), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Alanine, the simplest amino acid with a side chain (COD 8000310) | L. A. Malaspina, E. K. Wieduwilt, J. Bergmann et al. (The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6973, 2019), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Histidine, an amino acid (neutron, 5 K) (COD 2108879) | G. Novelli, C. J. McMonagle, F. Kleemiss et al. (Acta Crystallographica Section B 77, 2021), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Thymidine, a building block of DNA (COD 2104143) | C. B. Hübschle, B. Dittrich, S. Grabowsky et al. (Acta Crystallographica Section B 64 363, 2008), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Quartz (COD 9000775) | L. Levien, C. T. Prewitt and D. J. Weidner (American Mineralogist 65 920, 1980), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Calcite (COD 9000965) | S. A. Markgraf and R. J. Reeder (American Mineralogist 70 590, 1985), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Corundum (ruby and sapphire) (COD 1000032) | L. Lutterotti and P. Scardi (Journal of Applied Crystallography 23 246, 1990), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Beryl (emerald) (COD 9000992) | G. E. Brown and B. A. Mills (American Mineralogist 71 547, 1986), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Zircon (COD 9000684) | R. M. Hazen and L. W. Finger (American Mineralogist 64 196, 1979), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Garnet (pyrope) (COD 2108142) | R. Destro, R. Ruffo, P. Roversi et al. (Acta Crystallographica Section B 73 722, 2017), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Pyrite (fool's gold) (COD 1564890) | K. Ma, R. Lefèvre, Q. Li et al. (Chemical Science, 2021), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Ice from Antarctica (neutron) (COD 9015208) | A. D. Fortes, I. G. Wood, D. Grigoriev et al. (Journal of Chemical Physics 120 11376, 2004), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Rock salt (COD 7132177) | M. Mettler, A. Dewandre, N. Tumanov et al. (Chemical Communications, 2023), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Gypsum (neutron) (COD 2300258) | P. F. Henry, M. T. Weller and C. C. Wilson (Journal of Applied Crystallography 42 1176, 2009), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Blue vitriol (chalcanthite, neutron) (COD 9008253) | G. E. Bacon and D. H. Titterton (Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 141 330, 1975), via the Crystallography Open Database | CC0 1.0 (Crystallography Open Database) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Crambin, 0.54 Å (PDB 1EJG) | C. Jelsch, M. Teeter, V. Lamzin et al. (Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 97 3171, 2000), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Lysozyme, 0.65 Å (PDB 2VB1) | J. Wang, M. Dauter, R. Alkire et al. (Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.D 63 1254, 2007), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | An iron-sulfur protein (HiPIP), 0.48 Å (PDB 5D8V) | Y. Hirano, K. Takeda and K. Miki (Nature 534 281, 2016), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Rubredoxin, 0.68 Å (PDB 2DSX) | C. Chen, Y. Lin, Y. Huang and M. Liu (Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun. 349 79, 2006), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | B-DNA, 0.74 Å (PDB 1D8G) | C. Kielkopf, S. Ding, P. Kuhn and D. Rees (J.Mol.Biol. 296 787, 2000), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | A-DNA, 0.83 Å (PDB 1DPL) | M. Egli, V. Tereshko, M. Teplova et al. (Biopolymers 48 234, 1998), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | Z-DNA, 0.55 Å (PDB 3P4J) | K. Brzezinski, A. Brzuszkiewicz, M. Dauter et al. (Nucleic Acids Res. 39 6238, 2011), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | A four-stranded RNA, 0.61 Å (PDB 1J8G) | J. Deng, Y. Xiong and M. Sundaralingam (Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 98 13665, 2001), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | A loop of ribosomal RNA, 0.85 Å (PDB 5NQI) | C. Riml, A. Lusser, E. Ennifar and R. Micura (J. Org. Chem. 82 7939, 2017), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | DNA with a drug in its groove, 0.95 Å (PDB 3OMJ) | D. Chenoweth and P. Dervan (J.Am.Chem.Soc. 132 14521, 2010), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Thermal Ellipsoids | DNA with a light-switch metal complex, 0.92 Å (PDB 4E1U) | H. Song, J. Kaiser and J. Barton (Nat Chem 4 615, 2012), via the Protein Data Bank | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data policy) |
| Super-Res Microscope | Microtubules and clathrin in a Cos cell (ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.5507427) | Christophe Leterrier (Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto), on ShareLoc.XYZ; a 12 µm square cut from the record (a subset) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Super-Res Microscope | Zola-3D NUP full nucleus (ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.7233696) | Andrey Aristov (Institut Pasteur), uploaded by Benoit Lelandais, on ShareLoc.XYZ; a random half of the localizations (a subset) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Super-Res Microscope | Xenopus laevis nuclear pore complex stained with WGA-ATTO520 (ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.7182237) | Anna Löschberger, on ShareLoc.XYZ; an 8 µm square cut from the record (a subset) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Super-Res Microscope | Actin with PhalloidinAF647 in COS7 (ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.5510661) | Sarah Aufmkolk, on ShareLoc.XYZ; a 10 µm square of one cell, 174,903 of its localizations (a subset) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Super-Res Microscope | Mitochondrial protein TOM22 in COS7 cells (ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.5512636) | Wei Ouyang, on ShareLoc.XYZ; a 15 µm square of one field, 219,846 of its localizations (a subset) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Super-Res Microscope | ZOLA-3D microtubules (ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.6861446) | Andrey Aristov, Benoit Lelandais and Christophe Zimmer (Institut Pasteur), on ShareLoc.XYZ; a 12 µm square, 159,785 of its localizations (a subset) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Galaxy in a Box | FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulation m12i, snapshot 600 (z = 0), gas | The FIRE project: Wetzel et al. (2023, 2025), Hopkins (2015), Hopkins et al. (2018); m12i from Wetzel et al. (2016). A subset: 300,000 of the 2.45 million gas particles in a 40 kpc box round the galaxy | CC BY 4.0 |
| Galaxy in a Box | FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulation m12i, snapshot 172 (z = 2), gas and stars | The FIRE project: Wetzel et al. (2023, 2025), Hopkins (2015), Hopkins et al. (2018); m12i from Wetzel et al. (2016). A subset of the particles in a 24 kpc box round the galaxy | CC BY 4.0 |
| Galaxy in a Box | FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulation m11h, snapshot 600 (z = 0), gas and stars | The FIRE project: Wetzel et al. (2023, 2025), Hopkins (2015), Hopkins et al. (2018); m11h from El-Badry et al. (2018). A subset of the particles in a 16 kpc box round the galaxy | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cryo-EM Map | Mouse heavy-chain apoferritin by cryo-EM at 100 keV, 2.6 Å (EMD-17961), with its fitted model (PDB 8PVC) | G. McMullan, K. Naydenova, D. Mihaylov et al. (PNAS 120, e2312905120, 2023), via EMDB and the PDB | Public domain (EMDB: free of all copyright restrictions) |
| Cryo-EM Map | Arbekacin-bound E. coli 70S ribosome, 3.2 Å (EMD-48329), with its fitted model (PDB 9MKK) | S. Majumdar, N. P. Parajuli, X. Ge, A. Emmerich and S. Sanyal (Scientific Reports 15, 18271, 2025), via EMDB and the PDB | Public domain (EMDB: free of all copyright restrictions) |
| Cryo-EM Map | AAV2 virus-like particle, 3.02 Å (EMD-20610), with its fitted model (PDB 6U0V) | M. Agbandje-McKenna and A. Bennett (deposited 2019), via EMDB and the PDB | Public domain (EMDB: free of all copyright restrictions) |
| Contour Lab | Mount St. Helens: USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second elevation, a square averaged to 256 × 256 samples | U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (The National Map) | Public domain (USGS 3D Elevation Program) |
| Contour Lab | The Grand Canyon: USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second elevation, a square averaged to 256 × 256 samples | U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (The National Map) | Public domain (USGS 3D Elevation Program) |
| Contour Lab | Yosemite Valley and Half Dome: USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second elevation, a square averaged to 256 × 256 samples | U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (The National Map) | Public domain (USGS 3D Elevation Program) |
| Terrain in a Box | Mount St. Helens: USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second elevation, a square averaged to 256 × 256 samples | U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (The National Map) | Public domain (USGS 3D Elevation Program) |
| Terrain in a Box | The Grand Canyon: USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second elevation, a square averaged to 256 × 256 samples | U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (The National Map) | Public domain (USGS 3D Elevation Program) |
| Terrain in a Box | Yosemite Valley and Half Dome: USGS 3DEP 1/3 arc-second elevation, a square averaged to 256 × 256 samples | U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program (The National Map) | Public domain (USGS 3D Elevation Program) |
| Climate Records | Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Mauna Loa monthly mean CO2, May 1974 to August 2026 (snapshot of October 5, 2026) | Xin Lan, Pieter Tans and Kirk W. Thoning, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory | Public domain (U.S. government work) |
| Climate Records | GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP), version 4, accessed October 5, 2026; Lenssen et al. (2024), JGR Atmospheres | GISTEMP Team, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | Public domain (U.S. government work) |
Space
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asteroid | Muffled Distant Explosion (meteor-boom.mp3) | NenadSimic | CC0 1.0 |
| Asteroid | Rocks.wav (asteroid-crumble.mp3) | adamgryu | CC0 1.0 |
| Comet | Torch.wav (comet-fire.mp3) | DanielVega | CC0 1.0 |
| Meteor | Waving Torch.wav (meteor-fire.mp3) | spookymodem | CC0 1.0 |
| Meteor | Muffled Distant Explosion (meteor-boom.mp3) | NenadSimic | CC0 1.0 |
| Meteor | Deep Boom (supernova-boom.mp3) | Za-Games | CC0 1.0 |
| Star | Muffled Distant Explosion (meteor-boom.mp3) | NenadSimic | CC0 1.0 |
| Star | Deep Boom (supernova-boom.mp3) | Za-Games | CC0 1.0 |
| Pulsar | Deep Boom (supernova-boom.mp3) | Za-Games | CC0 1.0 |
| Black Hole | Deep Boom (supernova-boom.mp3) | Za-Games | CC0 1.0 |
| Ring Nebula | Muffled Distant Explosion (meteor-boom.mp3) | NenadSimic | CC0 1.0 |
| Ring Nebula | Deep Boom (supernova-boom.mp3) | Za-Games | CC0 1.0 |
| Nebula | Waving Torch.wav (meteor-fire.mp3) | spookymodem | CC0 1.0 |
| Supernova | Deep Boom (supernova-boom.mp3) | Za-Games | CC0 1.0 |
| Real Moon | CGI Moon Kit (LRO LROC color mosaic, 2025, and LOLA elevation) | NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (Ernie Wright); LRO LROC and LOLA teams | Public domain (NASA) |
| Real Moon | Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (center points of the named features) | International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS) |
| Real Planets | Blue Marble: Next Generation (July 2004) | NASA Earth Observatory (Reto Stöckli) | Public domain (NASA) |
| Real Planets | ETOPO 2022 Global Relief Model (60 and 15 arc-seconds) | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | Public domain (NOAA) |
| Real Planets | Black Marble 2016 (Earth at Night) | NASA Earth Observatory (Joshua Stevens, Miguel Román) | Public domain (NASA) |
| Real Planets | Natural Earth 1:10m cultural and physical vectors (states and provinces, populated places, marine areas, lakes, regions, elevation points) | Natural Earth (Tom Patterson, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and contributors) | Public domain |
| Real Moons | Io Galileo SSI / Voyager Global Mosaic, color merge, 1 km | NASA, JPL, Galileo and Voyager missions; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS and NASA) |
| Real Moons | Europa Voyager / Galileo SSI Global Mosaic 500m | NASA, JPL, Galileo and Voyager missions; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS and NASA) |
| Real Moons | Ganymede Voyager / Galileo SSI Global Color Mosaic 1435m | NASA, JPL, Galileo and Voyager missions; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS and NASA) |
| Real Moons | Callisto Voyager / Galileo SSI Global Mosaic 1km | NASA, JPL, Galileo and Voyager missions; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS and NASA) |
| Real Moons | Titan Cassini ISS Global Mosaic 4km | NASA, JPL, Space Science Institute, Cassini mission; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS and NASA) |
| Real Moons | Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (center points of the named features) | International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS) |
| Small Worlds | Pluto New Horizons LORRI MVIC Global Mosaic and DEM 300m | NASA, Johns Hopkins APL, Southwest Research Institute, New Horizons mission; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS and NASA) |
| Small Worlds | Ceres Dawn FC global mosaic (DLR, 2015) and HAMO DTM (DLR, 2016) | NASA, JPL, MPS, DLR, IDA, Dawn mission; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS and NASA) |
| Small Worlds | Vesta Dawn FC HAMO Global Mosaic and DTM | NASA, JPL, MPS, DLR, IDA, Dawn mission; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS and NASA) |
| Small Worlds | Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (center points of the named features) | International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature; USGS Astrogeology Science Center | Public domain (USGS) |
| Star Explorer | Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars (Gaia Collaboration, Smart et al. 2021, A&A 649, A6) | ESA/Gaia/DPAC | CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO |
| Star Explorer | HYG database v4.4 | David Nash (astronexus) | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Real Star Systems | NASA Exoplanet Archive, Planetary Systems Composite Parameters | NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (Caltech/IPAC) | CC0 (NASA mission data) |
| Real Galaxies | Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), heic0506a | NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Real Galaxies | Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), heic0602a | European Space Agency & NASA (ESA/Hubble) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Real Galaxies | Phantom Galaxy (M74), heic0719a | NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration | CC BY 4.0 |
| Real Galaxies | Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83), eso0825a | ESO | CC BY 4.0 |
| Powers of Ten | M83 (eso0825a) | ESO | CC BY 4.0 |
| Powers of Ten | HYG database v4.4 | David Nash (astronexus) | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Powers of Ten | Gaia nearby-star catalog, GCNS (Smart et al. 2021) | ESA/Gaia/DPAC | CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO |
| Powers of Ten | Approximate Positions of the Planets (Table 1) | E. M. Standish, JPL | Public domain |
| Powers of Ten | CGI Moon Kit (LRO LROC color mosaic) | NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio; LRO LROC team | Public domain |
| Powers of Ten | Blue Marble: Next Generation (via USGS The National Map, USGS Imagery Only) | NASA Earth Observatory (Reto Stöckli) | Public domain |
| Powers of Ten | Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOxCloudless) | EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Powers of Ten | USGS Imagery Only (NAIP) | USDA, USGS The National Map | Public domain |
| Powers of Ten | Aerial Photography (Orthophoto) 2023, 3 inch | District of Columbia, Office of the Chief Technology Officer | CC BY 4.0 |
| Powers of Ten | Golden Fullmoon Maple (3D capture) | Joshua Trapani | CC BY 4.0 |
| Powers of Ten | Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum' | Megan Hansen (Flickr) | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Powers of Ten | Golden Full Moon Maple | susteph (Flickr) | CC BY 2.0 |
| Powers of Ten | Arabidopsis thaliana plant cells containing chloroplasts, LM | Fernán Federici (Wellcome Collection) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Powers of Ten | Chloroplast in a bean leaf, TEM | Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen (Wellcome Collection) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Powers of Ten | Arbekacin-bound E. coli 70S ribosome, 3.2 Å (EMD-48329), with its model (PDB 9MKK) | S. Majumdar, N. P. Parajuli, X. Ge, A. Emmerich and S. Sanyal (2025), via EMDB and the PDB | Public domain (EMDB) |
| Saturn V | Saturn V (NASA 3D Resources) | NASA (Michael D. Carbajal) | NASA 3D Resources, used under NASA's media guidelines |
| SLS Rocket | Space Launch System (SLS) (NASA 3D Resources) | NASA | NASA 3D Resources, used under NASA's media guidelines |
| Space Shuttle | Space Shuttle (A) (NASA 3D Resources) | NASA (Michael D. Carbajal) | NASA 3D Resources, used under NASA's media guidelines |
| Solar System | Approximate Positions of the Planets (E. M. Standish), Table 1 | JPL Solar System Dynamics | Public domain (NASA/JPL) |
| Solar System | Planetary Satellite Mean Elements; JPL Horizons (Titan) | JPL Solar System Dynamics | Public domain (NASA/JPL) |
| Solar System | JPL Small-Body Database (a snapshot of October 7, 2026) | JPL Solar System Dynamics | Public domain (NASA/JPL) |
| Solar System | The color maps of the real worlds (Space r2), shrunk | NASA, USGS (see the real worlds' credits) | Public domain |
| Night Sky | HYG database v4.1 | David Nash (astronexus.com) | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Night Sky | Western sky culture | The Stellarium team | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Night Sky | Approximate Positions of the Planets (E. M. Standish) | JPL Solar System Dynamics | Published formulas |
| Night Sky | The colour of the sky from Gaia's Early Data Release 3 | ESA/Gaia/DPAC (acknowledgement: A. Moitinho) | CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO |
| Night Sky | CGI Moon Kit | NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio | Public domain |
Math
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klein Bottle | Bottle Slosh 2 (klein-bottle-slosh.mp3) | alegemaate | CC0 1.0 |
Atoms
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electron Orbital | highvoltagearc.wav (neuron-arc.mp3) | Sclolex | CC0 1.0 |
| Atom | Atomic Weights and Isotopic Compositions; Atomic Spectra Database ground levels | NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory; PubChem; IUPAC (elements 95 to 118) | Public domain (facts) |
| Molecule | PubChem 3D conformers (glucose, aspirin, ATP and the rest) | NCBI PubChem | Public domain |
| Molecule | RCSB Protein Data Bank entry 1BNA (B-DNA dodecamer), hydrogens added | H. R. Drew, R. M. Wing, T. Takano, C. Broka, S. Tanaka, K. Itakura, R. E. Dickerson | CC0 1.0 |
| Protein | RCSB Protein Data Bank entries 1UBQ, 4INS, 1EMA and 4HHB | the wwPDB and the structures' authors | CC0 1.0 |
| Protein | Velcro (protein-velcro.mp3) | paulocorona | CC0 1.0 |
| Crystal Lattice | Steel chain soft drop (crystal-lattice-chain.mp3) | ani_music | CC0 1.0 |
| Unit Cells | Crystallography Open Database entries 9008564, 9011577, 1538173, 9008468, 9008536 and 9008506 | the COD and the structures' authors (Wyckoff 1963; Trucano and Chen 1975; Goto, Hondoh and Mae 1990) | Public domain (CC0) |
| Molecule Viewer | Crambin, snapshot of October 5, 2026 | W. A. Hendrickson and M. M. Teeter (the structure); M. M. Teeter, PNAS 81, 6014 (1984) | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data) |
| Molecule Viewer | Green fluorescent protein, snapshot of October 5, 2026 | M. Ormö and S. J. Remington (the structure); M. Ormö, A. B. Cubitt, K. Kallio, L. A. Gross, R. Y. Tsien and S. J. Remington, Science 273, 1392 (1996) | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data) |
| Molecule Viewer | Hen egg-white lysozyme, snapshot of October 5, 2026 | R. Diamond, D. C. Phillips, C. C. F. Blake and A. C. T. North (the structure); R. Diamond, J. Mol. Biol. 82, 371 (1974) | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data) |
| Molecule Viewer | B-DNA, twelve base pairs, snapshot of October 5, 2026 | H. R. Drew, R. M. Wing, T. Takano, C. Broka, S. Tanaka, K. Itakura and R. E. Dickerson (PNAS 78, 2179, 1981) | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data) |
| Molecule Viewer | Caffeine, snapshot of October 5, 2026 | the wwPDB Chemical Component Dictionary (ideal coordinates) | CC0 1.0 (wwPDB data) |
| Periodic Table | Images of Elements: a photo of each element; credit links to each element's page | Images of Elements (Jumk.de Webprojects) | CC BY 3.0 |
| Periodic Table | Liquid fluorine.jpg | Prof B. G. Mueller | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Periodic Table | Technetium-sample.jpg | Marco Cardin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Periodic Table | Promethium Metal Buttons.png | E. J. Wheelwright, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Flag of Poland.svg | Wikimedia Commons contributors | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Autunite-20885.jpg | Robert M. Lavinsky (iRocks.com) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Periodic Table | Granite 5 (48674315157).jpg | James St. John | CC BY 2.0 |
| Periodic Table | Thorite-288916.jpg | Robert M. Lavinsky (iRocks.com) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Periodic Table | Radium226.jpg | grenadier | CC BY 3.0 |
| Periodic Table | Uraninite-225146.jpg | Robert M. Lavinsky (iRocks.com) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Periodic Table | Thorianite-729924.jpg | Kelly Nash | CC BY 3.0 |
| Periodic Table | Protactinium-233.jpg | U.S. Department of Energy | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Depleted Uranium.jpg | 范皓程 | CC BY 4.0 |
| Periodic Table | Neptunium2.jpg | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Plutonium3.jpg | U.S. Department of Energy | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Americium microscope.jpg | Bionerd | CC BY 3.0 |
| Periodic Table | Marie Curie c1920.jpg | Henri Manuel | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Berkelium metal.jpg | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Californium.jpg | U.S. Department of Energy | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | EinsteiniumGlow.JPG | R. G. Haire, U.S. Department of Energy | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg | U.S. Department of Energy | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | DIMendeleevCab.jpg | Unknown photographer | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | AlfredNobel2.jpg | Unknown photographer | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Ernest Lawrence.jpg | Nobel Foundation | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Ernest Rutherford LOC.jpg | George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Coat of arms of Dubna.svg | City of Dubna | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Glenn Seaborg - 1964.jpg | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Niels Bohr.jpg | AB Lagrelius & Westphal | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Coat of arms of Hesse.svg | State of Hesse | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Lise Meitner NatGeo.jpg | Harris & Ewing | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Wappen Darmstadt.svg | City of Darmstadt (Hessisches Staatsarchiv) | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Roentgen2.jpg | Unknown photographer | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg | Unknown painter (Toruń Town Hall portrait, c. 1580) | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Flag of Japan.svg | Government of Japan | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | RUSMARKA-1660 (cropped).jpg | Russian Post (Marka); designer A. Povarikhin | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Flag of Moscow, Russia.svg | City of Moscow | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Downtown Livermore California.jpg | LPS.1 | CC0 |
| Periodic Table | Flag of Tennessee.svg | State of Tennessee; drawn by -xfi- | Public domain |
| Periodic Table | Yuri Oganessian (cropped).jpg | VPRO | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Periodic Table | PubChem Periodic Table of Elements and element pages (uses quoted there from Jefferson Lab and Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy) | NCBI PubChem | Public domain (U.S. government data) |
Photoreal
Lab
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Lab | Handbook of Basic Atomic Spectroscopic Data, strong lines of 16 neutral atoms (Sansonetti and Martin; NIST SRD 108) | NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory | Measured values (facts), credited to NIST |
| Light Lab | Optical glass data sheets, N-SF11 and N-BK7 (Sellmeier coefficients) | SCHOTT AG | Published constants (facts) |
Arcade
Toys
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building Bricks | Impact Sounds (kenney-generic-light.mp3) | Kenney | CC0 1.0 |
| Spinning Top | Metallic Spinning Top (Dry Sound).wav (spinning-top-spin.mp3) | Uzbazur | CC0 1.0 |
| Dice | Casino Audio 1.1: dice-throw-1.ogg and dice-throw-3.ogg (dice-throw.mp3) | Kenney (kenney.nl) | CC0 1.0 |
| Teddy Bear | 08. Relleno de oso.wav (teddy-bear-plush.mp3) | lemigoga | CC0 1.0 |
| Puzzle Cube | Cube Turn - 9 (a puzzle cube turning) (puzzle-cube-turn.mp3) | SpaceJoe | CC0 1.0 |
| Spring Toy | slinky Copy.wav (spring-toy-slinky.mp3) | foxraid | CC0 1.0 |
| Balloon Dog | Balloon-Burst-07.wav (balloon-dog-pop.mp3) | Gniffelbaf | CC0 1.0 |
| Soap Bubbles | Blow air short (soap-bubbles-blow.mp3) | yehdawgo | CC0 1.0 |
| Tin Robot | Wind-up sound (robot-wind.mp3) | Breviceps | CC0 1.0 |
| Chess Set | Piece Placement.mp3 (chess-set-move.mp3) | el_boss | CC0 1.0 |
Balls
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soccer Ball | Impact Sounds (kenney-punch-medium.mp3) | Kenney | CC0 1.0 |
| Tennis Ball | ball_hit_ground.wav (tennis-ball-slam.mp3) | Kyanite_ | CC0 1.0 |
| Baseball | Bat Hit 9 FF095.aif (baseball-bat.mp3) | martinimeniscus | CC0 1.0 |
| Softball | ball_hit_ground.wav (tennis-ball-slam.mp3) | Kyanite_ | CC0 1.0 |
| Beach Ball | fotballPlast.wav (beach-ball-bounce.mp3) | blindmanonacid | CC0 1.0 |
| Rugby Ball | Impact Sounds (kenney-punch-medium.mp3) | Kenney | CC0 1.0 |
| Bowling Ball | Bowling Ball.wav (bowling-ball-roll.mp3) | driftworks | CC0 1.0 |
| Bowling Ball | B_2 Bowling ball striking pins.wav (bowling-ball-pins.mp3) | Yarmonics | CC0 1.0 |
| Pool Ball | pool_break.wav (pool-ball-cue.mp3) | reg7783 | CC0 1.0 |
| Medicine Ball | Impact Sounds (kenney-punch-medium.mp3) | Kenney | CC0 1.0 |
| Marble | Marble (single) rolling on wooden floor.wav (marble-roll.mp3) | LiezelDippenaar | CC0 1.0 |
Imaging
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut CT | Cone-Beam X-Ray CT Data Collection Designed for Machine Learning: Samples 1-8 (Walnut 1) | Henri Der Sarkissian, Felix Lucka, Maureen van Eijnatten, Giulia Colacicco, Sophia Bethany Coban, K. Joost Batenburg (CWI) | CC BY 4.0 |
Earth and Maps
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Canyon | 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), The National Map | U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Grand Canyon | The National Map orthoimagery (NAIP and Landsat) | USDA Farm Service Agency, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Mount St. Helens | Digital elevation model of Mount St. Helens prior to the 1980 eruption | J. A. Bard and R. Phillips-Netherton, U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Mount St. Helens | 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), The National Map | U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Mount St. Helens | The National Map orthoimagery (NAIP and Landsat) | USDA Farm Service Agency, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| The Sea Floor | ETOPO1 Global Relief Model | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | Public domain |
| Bar Harbor Tides | Tide predictions, Bar Harbor, Maine (8413320) | NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services | Public domain |
| Bar Harbor Tides | NCEI coastal digital elevation models | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | Public domain |
| Bar Harbor Tides | The National Map orthoimagery (NAIP and Landsat) | USDA Farm Service Agency, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Hurricane | GOES-East ABI band 13 (clean infrared), through NASA GIBS | NOAA NESDIS (imagery served by NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services) | Public domain |
| Hurricane | Best track of Hurricane Polo (EP17, 2026) | NOAA National Hurricane Center | Public domain |
| Hurricane | Blue Marble: Next Generation (true color), through NASA GIBS | NASA Earth Observatory | Public domain |
| Hurricane | ETOPO1 Global Relief Model | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | Public domain |
| Relief Map | 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), The National Map | U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Relief Map | National Hydrography Dataset | U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Relief Map | National Land Cover Database 2021 (MRLC) | U.S. Geological Survey and the MRLC consortium | Public domain |
| Relief Map | The National Map orthoimagery (NAIP and Landsat) | USDA Farm Service Agency, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Stork Migration | Data from: The challenges of the first migration (white storks, Rotics et al. 2016) | S. Rotics, M. Kaatz, Y. S. Resheff, S. F. Turjeman, D. Zurell, N. Sapir, U. Eggers, A. Flack, W. Fiedler, F. Jeltsch, M. Wikelski and R. Nathan (Movebank Data Repository) | CC0 1.0 |
| Stork Migration | Blue Marble: Next Generation (true color), through NASA GIBS | NASA Earth Observatory | Public domain |
| Stork Migration | ETOPO1 Global Relief Model | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | Public domain |
| Earthquakes | USGS earthquake feeds | U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain |
| Earthquakes | ETOPO1 Global Relief Model | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | Public domain |
| Earthquakes | Blue Marble: Next Generation (true color), through NASA GIBS | NASA Earth Observatory | Public domain |
Music
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music Box | Impact Sounds (kenney-wood-medium.mp3) | Kenney | CC0 1.0 |
Everyday Things
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treasure Chest | Impact Sounds (kenney-wood-heavy.mp3) | Kenney | CC0 1.0 |
| Storybook | Book Turn Page 2.wav (book-page.mp3) | esperri | CC0 1.0 |
| Fountain Pen | Fountain pen in translucent green (maker's marks painted out, cap moved) | chemicalX | CC BY 4.0 |
| Water Bottle | Water bottle (cap moved onto the neck) | danny_p3d | CC BY 4.0 |
| Water Bottle | Pouring water into a glass (water-bottle-pour.mp3) | ahamirikia | CC0 1.0 |
| Soda Can | Soda Can (label painted for Splashery) | RoutineStudio | CC BY 4.0 |
Nature
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Tree | FallingLeaves (oak-leaves.mp3) | falcospizaetus | CC0 1.0 |
| Bonsai | scissors cut.wav (bonsai-snip.mp3) | mywhats | CC0 1.0 |
| Pebbles | Slow Pebble Tumble.wav (rocks-pebbles.mp3) | bbrocer | CC0 1.0 |
Weather & Fire
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iceberg | Ice Crack 1 (iceberg-crack.mp3) | j_p_higgins | CC0 1.0 |
Food
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Popcorn | Popcorn (popcorn-pops.mp3) | elricadavis | CC0 1.0 |
| Donut | bread slice serrated knife cut and rip (donut-tear.mp3) | spanrucker | CC0 1.0 |
| Taco | chips crunch sound (taco-crack.mp3) | TomatoHater | CC0 1.0 |
| Apple | Bite (Apple) (apple-bite.mp3) | wadaltmon | CC0 1.0 |
Gems
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond | Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3) | Unicornaphobist | CC0 1.0 |
| Ruby | Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3) | Unicornaphobist | CC0 1.0 |
| Emerald | Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3) | Unicornaphobist | CC0 1.0 |
| Sapphire | Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3) | Unicornaphobist | CC0 1.0 |
| Opal | Glass Tap.wav (diamond-tap.mp3) | Unicornaphobist | CC0 1.0 |
Body
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beating Heart | Human Heartbeat (60 BPM) (heart-beat.mp3) | FenrirFangs | CC0 1.0 |
| Brain | highvoltagearc.wav (neuron-arc.mp3) | Sclolex | CC0 1.0 |
| Lungs | - Deep Breath (lungs-breath-b.mp3) | rrehl | CC0 1.0 |
Tiny World
Clothing
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Running Shoe | PB158 Sneaker Low (photogrammetry scan; its bow left out) | SCANIMAT | CC BY 4.0 |
| Hoodie | Hoodie (drawstrings and inside label left out) | Virtual Pandora | CC BY 4.0 |
| Sunglasses | Round Spectacles (lenses left out) | Sean Buckley | CC0 1.0 |
| Baseball Cap | Baseball Cap | Scott VanArsdale | CC BY 4.0 |
Medieval
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bow and Target | Bow Release (Bow and Arrow) 3 (bow-and-target-release.mp3) | Ali_6868 | CC0 1.0 |
| Crossbow | Bow Release (Bow and Arrow) 3 (bow-and-target-release.mp3) | Ali_6868 | CC0 1.0 |
| Knight's Helmet | Impact Sounds (kenney-metal-medium.mp3) | Kenney | CC0 1.0 |
| Crystal Ball | Wine glass clink deeper.wav (crystal-ball-ring.mp3) | lmr9 | CC0 1.0 |
Animals
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frog | Fly_Buzzing_Edited.wav (frog-fly.mp3) | AmberdeMeillon | CC0 1.0 |
| Frog | Frog croaking sound effect (frog-croak.mp3) | betterchinese | CC0 1.0 |
| Owl | owl_hooting_000102_0145S3 002-070 000-002 068-074.wav (owl-hoot-short.mp3) | Gerent | CC0 1.0 |
Holidays
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks | Firework Explosion 3 (fireworks-burst.mp3) | a deleted Freesound account (deleted_user_3544904) | CC0 1.0 |
| Decorated Tree | Glockenspiel - C5 (glock_medium_C5.wav) (decorated-tree-bell.mp3) | sgossner | CC0 1.0 |
| Decorated Tree | Sleigh bells hit (decorated-tree-sleigh.mp3) | Selector | CC0 1.0 |
Vehicles
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helicopter | Helicopter Flyby / Pass (helicopter-chop.mp3) | mil0001 | CC0 1.0 |
| Steam Train | d_s478_underbridge.wav (steam-train-chuff.mp3) | relwin | CC0 1.0 |
| Sports Car | Car Engine Revving.WAV (sports-car-rev.mp3) | DigPro120 | CC0 1.0 |
| Propeller Plane | Aeroplane Passing Close.wav (propeller-plane-engine.mp3) | paulprit | CC0 1.0 |
| Bicycle | Bicycle Bell.wav (bicycle-bell.mp3) | PanosA | CC0 1.0 |
| Tractor | Tractor whirring (tractor-engine.mp3) | vonis22 | CC0 1.0 |
Landmarks
| Splash | Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eiffel Tower | Firework Explosion 3 (fireworks-burst.mp3) | a deleted Freesound account (deleted_user_3544904) | CC0 1.0 |
| Colosseum | cheering and clapping crowd 1 (colosseum-crowd.mp3) | AlaskaRobotics | CC0 1.0 |
| Colosseum | Horse and Carriage.mp3 (colosseum-hooves.mp3) | maadmacs | CC0 1.0 |
Captures
Each is used under its own license below, with the changes Splashery made to it; the shelf pictures are rendered from the captures. The page shows each capture’s credit under the shelf. 3 of them (Dog plush, Desk globe, Cherry blossom (photo)) are licensed for non-commercial use only, and the page says so beside their credit. The five SuperSplat captures’ license, “CC BY 4.0”, was checked on each live page on October 24, 2026, when their files were downloaded. The five’s SOG and light files moved to R2 then too.
| Splash | Work | Author | License | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cactus | Cactus (3DGS sample data) | steam studio / 3D SCAN STUDIO iris | CC0 1.0 | Converted to SOG, spherical harmonics removed, recentred, scaled and cropped. |
| Strawberry | Strawberry | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| Heart cookie | Heart Cookie | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| Honeybee | Japanese Bee | YUMA Co., Ltd. | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, turned upright, recentred and scaled. |
| Cluster fly | Cluster Fly | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| May beetle | MAY-BEETLE-HIRES | trilithon | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| Millipede | millipede spec. | scant3d | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| Carder bumblebee | Macroscan - Brown-banded carder bumblebee (Bombus humilis) | macroscans | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| Raspberry | Raspberry | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, thinned to 1,000,000 of the original’s 2,370,630 splats (with a 300,000-splat and a 100,000-splat file for phones), spherical harmonics removed, turned, recentred and scaled. The files are at https://assets.splashery.app/toys/raspberry/ (raspberry-sharp*.sog); the first files, decimated to 300,000 splats, are in assets/toys/raspberry/ (?old=raspberry-sharp). |
| Blackberry | Blackberry | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, thinned to 1,000,000 of the original’s 1,827,148 splats (with a 300,000-splat and a 100,000-splat file for phones), spherical harmonics removed, turned, recentred and scaled. The files are at https://assets.splashery.app/toys/blackberry/ (blackberry-sharp*.sog); the first files, decimated to 300,000 splats, are in assets/toys/blackberry/ (?old=blackberry-sharp). |
| Blueberry | Blueberry | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, thinned to 1,000,000 of the original’s 1,475,465 splats (with a 300,000-splat and a 100,000-splat file for phones), spherical harmonics removed, turned, recentred and scaled. The files are at https://assets.splashery.app/toys/blueberry/ (blueberry-sharp*.sog); the first files, decimated to 300,000 splats, are in assets/toys/blueberry/ (?old=blueberry-sharp). |
| Grape | Grape | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| Cinnamon star cookie | Cinnamon Star Cookie | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, turned to show the glazed top, recentred and scaled. |
| Tomatoes | Tomatoes - No Postshot! | simonbethke | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| Mandeltorus | MandelTorus 4,12,8,1.5 (Spirula Studio) | harry7557558 | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| Basket | Basket | hollmar | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, spherical harmonics removed, recentred and scaled. |
| Heart donut | Heart Shaped Donut | John Splat | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Sushi boat | SUSHI | leo esteves | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Seeded bread loaf | Seeded Bread Loaf | John Splat | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Cowboy steak | Cowboy Steak | Eric Cornwell | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Stollen | Stollen Confectionery | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Orange (photo) | Fresh Orange | Storm Geerling | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Physalis | Physalis | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Crystal | Homemade Crystal Gem | Eric Cornwell | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Alum crystal | alum-stone | Arshad | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. The source has no spherical harmonics. |
| Puffin | Puffin | Dan Zeitman | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Toy T. rex | Tyrannosaurus Rex | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Monkey doll | Monkey Doll | Ethan | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. The source has no spherical harmonics. |
| Souvenir elephant | Thai souvenir elephant toy | Aung Sann Thit | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Souvenir turtle | Turtle Souvenir | Tony Rose | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Cave lioness | Lioness (Panthera Spelaea) | Spenser DIckerson | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Dog plush | Dog Plush - Revopoint POP4 with additional Pictures | PrintedForFun | CC BY-NC 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. The capture’s stray fringe under the plush removed and the gaps there closed with a hidden core. Not shown (October 23, 2026). |
| BMX bicycle | BMX Bicycle - Enhanced | Eric Cornwell | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Murex shell | Murex Shell | Rigsters | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Sunflower (photo) | Sunflower | Natural Ai | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| White roses | White Rose 2 | Natural Ai | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Bonsai tree (photo) | Bonsai Tree | Garrett Nelli | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Mushroom (photo) | Rugiboletus extremiorientalis mushroom | Alexander Omelko | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Cactus (photo 2) | Cactus 1 | Natural Ai | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Crochet Earth | Earth Crochet from Project Hail Mary | Wan Xi | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Desk globe | Cheap globe | ilk | CC BY-NC 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. Not shown (October 23, 2026). |
| Cherry blossom (photo) | CHERRY BLOSSOM - HIGH PARK | Todd Smith | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. Not shown (October 23, 2026). |
| Golden maple | Golden Fullmoon Maple | Joshua Trapani | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Peonies in a vase | Pink Peonies | Sergiu Zboras | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Money tree | Money Tree (Pachira) | Natural Ai | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Knight on a horse | A knight with a sword and shield on a black horse | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, decimated, recentred and scaled. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Triceratops skull | Triceratops (Burke Museum) | Luke Shea | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, recentered and scaled; its mounting rod cropped. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Cone shell | Leopard (textile) cone shell | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 | Converted, recentered and scaled; the putty it stood on cropped. One band of spherical harmonics kept on the full file. |
| Real rubber duck | Rubber Duck Toy | Plat251 | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Garden gnome | Garden Gnome | Bhargav Kubal | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Wooden elephant | Carved Wooden Elephant | Greg Zaal | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs) with soft studio light baked in, recentred and scaled. |
| Marble bust | Marble Bust 01 | Rico Cilliers | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Ukulele | Ukulele 01 | Joseph Burgan | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Real alarm clock | Alarm Clock 01 | Yann Kervran, James Ray Cock | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Vintage camera | Camera 01 | Rajil Jose Macatangay | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs) with soft studio light baked in, recentred and scaled. The maker’s and lens names printed on it were painted out. |
| Boombox | Boombox | Thomas Paul Mouilleron | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs) with soft studio light baked in, recentred and scaled. |
| Real croissant | Croissant | Greg Zaal, Dario Barresi | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Carrot cake | Carrot Cake | Greg Zaal, James Ray Cock | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Pomegranate | Food Pomegranate 01 | Oliver Harries | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Lantern | Lantern 01 | Rajil Jose Macatangay | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Cat statue | Concrete Cat Statue | Rico Cilliers, Riley Queen | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs), recentred and scaled. |
| Horse statue | Horse Statue 01 | Rico Cilliers | CC0 1.0 | Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs) with soft studio light baked in, recentred and scaled. |
| Wind-up robot | Wind-up robot | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 | Made by Ryan Kamp: an original model with no third-party content, built by tools/blender/splat-training-set.py and rendered in Blender 5.2.3 (Cycles) from 200 views at 1024×1024, lit by Blender’s bundled studio HDRI (CC0, Greg Zaal, Poly Haven), and trained into 177,896 splats with Brush 0.3.0 (Apache-2.0); converted by tools/blender/ply-to-toy.mjs: base colors only, recentred and scaled, and a 100,000-splat lite copy. This site’s own files, in assets/toys/wind-up-robot/. |
| Ship model | Soleil Royal | Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum (German Maritime Museum) | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; 669 loose floaters removed. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/ship-model/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/ship-model/. |
| Typewriter | TypeWriter-02 | Kevin Lai | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; 8,024 loose floaters removed. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/typewriter/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/typewriter/. Its first files, with the maker’s name painted out where it is printed on the paper table and where it stands on the front badge (the badge laid flat in its own colors), and the model number cast in the frame’s front corner, each from the colors of the surface around it, are served with ?old=redactions (the redaction ledger). |
| Vanadinite | Vanadinite | Yann de Couëssin | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled, on the coin it stands on (a 2-euro coin); the 6,509 splats under the coin cropped away, and 2,734 loose fibers and floaters with them. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/vanadinite/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/vanadinite/. Its first files, with the coin cropped away below a plane just over its face, are served with ?old=redactions (the redaction ledger). |
| Rangefinder camera | Kiev Camera (improved) | Mykhailo Moroz | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the tripod it stood on cropped below the camera, the tripod mount left under the bottom plate removed and the plate there filled in from the plate around it; 4,262 loose floaters removed. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/rangefinder-camera/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/rangefinder-camera/. Its first files, with the maker’s name and logo on the front, the lens’s name, aperture and focal length, serial number, and logo on its front ring, and the factory logo and serial number on the top painted out from the surfaces around them, are served with ?old=redactions (the redaction ledger). |
| Cherry tree | Cherry Blossom | Garrett Nelli | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the lawn around it cropped to a round patch a little wider than its crown; 1,610 loose floaters removed. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/cherry-tree/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/cherry-tree/. |
| Felted fox | Felted fox | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 | Made by Ryan Kamp: an original needle-felted fox with no third-party content, modeled in Blender 5.2.3 (its felt from metaballs, its loose fibers from hair curves, and its soft studio light from the world’s own shader nodes; no downloaded models, textures, or HDRIs), rendered in Cycles from 300 views at 2048×2048 by tools/blender/splat-training-set.py, and trained into 1,000,000 splats with LichtFeld Studio (GPL-3.0, run as a tool; none of its code is in this site); converted by tools/blender/ply-to-toy.mjs: base colors only, recentred and scaled, with a 300,000-splat and a 100,000-splat file made by tools/light-file.mjs. The files are in the bucket splashery-assets at https://assets.splashery.app/toys/felted-fox/ (felted-fox-sharp*.sog); the first files, made from 240 views at 1024×1024 and trained into 314,903 splats with Brush 0.3.0 (Apache-2.0), are in assets/toys/felted-fox/ (?old=fox-sharper). |
| Space capsule | Soyuz TMA-14, Seattle WA (XGRIDS PortalCam) | Paolo Tosolini | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG (the capture has base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the exhibit’s rail, panels, wall, and floor cropped away (1,102,269 splats), the capsule kept on its cradle; 135,021 loose floaters removed; 485,616 splats. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/space-capsule/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/space-capsule/. |
| Antique car | Tudhope Automobile | SteveB | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the gravel it stood on cropped away along the ground’s slope, its tires kept down to the ground; 4,579 loose floaters removed; 401,345 splats. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/antique-car/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/antique-car/. Its first files, with the maker’s name painted out from the surfaces around it on the radiator and on the side plate (the plate laid flat in its own colors), and the bottoms of its wheels cut off by a level crop, are served with ?old=redactions (the redaction ledger). |
| Muscle car | Superbird | Kalvin (amberkalvin) | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the asphalt it stood on cropped away along the ground’s slope; 1,552 loose floaters removed; 540,839 splats of the asphalt and the air round it cropped, 915,505 kept. The lettering and emblems painted over from the surfaces around them with tools/paint-over.mjs (the script on both rear quarters and across the tail, the 440 on both sides of the hood, the Road Runner roundel on both wing end plates and on the nose cone, the tire lettering, the stripe’s lettering, and the rear plate, which is blank), which added 32,019 splats: 947,524 in all. A 300,000-splat file and a 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/muscle-car/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/muscle-car/. The scene’s license.txt reads “Author must be credited. Commercial use is allowed.” (the redaction ledger). |
| Mail biplane | Boeing Model 40B assembled | Paolo Tosolini | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG (the capture has base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the hall around it cropped away (its floor, rail, exhibit panels, beacon tower, mail truck, and a figure: 2,791,030 splats); 392,616 splats. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/mail-biplane/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/mail-biplane/. Its first files, with the maker’s roundel painted out on both sides of the fuselage from the paint around it, are served with ?old=redactions (the redaction ledger); its historic markings stay in both: “U.S. MAIL C.A.M. 18”, the registration “C 290”, and the American Railway Express diamond. |
| Model touring car | Adler model car, built in 1905 | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the wooden disc it stood on cropped away; 1,916 loose floaters removed; 155,420 splats. A light file of 100,000 of its splats. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/model-touring-car/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/model-touring-car/. Its first files, with the maker’s name on the radiator painted out (the radiator laid flat in the grille’s own colors), are served with ?old=redactions (the redaction ledger). |
| Classic sports car | porsche | VODKIN | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the cobbles it stood on cropped away; 377 loose floaters removed; 404,000 splats. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/classic-sports-car/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/classic-sports-car/. Its files of October 24, 2026, with 2,455 floaters removed on a grid of 100 cells (which left dark smears in the driver’s door), are served with ?old=sports-car-door. Its first files, with the maker’s crest on the hood, its name on the rear reflector, the lettering on the four tires, and both license plates painted out from the surfaces around them, and 6,706 floaters removed on a finer grid (which took some of the doors’ paint with them), are served with ?old=redactions (the redaction ledger). |
| Track car | Porsche 992 GT3RS 2023 | Jakub Makar | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; 5,566 loose floaters removed; 637,207 splats. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/track-car/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/track-car/. Its first files, with the maker’s crest on the hood, its name and the model badge on the rear, the model lettering along both sides (made plain stripes), the name on three brake calipers, the model name on a seat, and the logos on the four wheel caps painted out from the surfaces around them, the license plate blanked, and the driver figure’s face blurred, are served with ?old=redactions (the redaction ledger). |
| Cochem Castle | Cochem Imperial Castle, Germany | Dok11 | CC BY 4.0 | Made by its author from videos by MARROS on Pexels. Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the hilltop cropped to a round patch around the castle, without the river, the town, and the hills around it (1,021,925 splats); 765 loose floaters removed; 969,717 splats. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/cochem-castle/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/cochem-castle/. |
| Smederevo Fortress | Smederevo Fortress wide | Zeljko Devic | CC BY 4.0 | Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the fortress cropped along its walls, without the river, the far bank, and the sky (95,631 splats); 222 loose floaters removed; 872,427 splats. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/smederevo-fortress/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/smederevo-fortress/. |
| Perseverance rover | Perseverance rover - Synthetic scene | tmate | CC BY 4.0 | Made by its author in Blender from NASA’s 3D models of Perseverance, Ingenuity, and a sample tube (NASA’s 3D resources, NASA/JPL) and trained in LichtFeld Studio. Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled; the ground cropped to a round patch around the rover, without Ingenuity, the far ground, and the sky (1,784,742 splats); 7,407 loose floaters removed; thinned by weight from 4,216,577 to 1,000,000 splats. Its 22 labeled hotspots come from the scene’s annotations, their texts edited. A 100,000-splat light file picked from it. Served from Cloudflare R2 (toys/perseverance/); its shelf picture in assets/toys/perseverance/. Its first files, with NASA’s insignia and JPL’s logo on the front of the body and the Mars 2020 mission logo on the arm painted out from the surfaces around them (the last left a plain plate), are served with ?old=redactions (the redaction ledger); the rover’s name on the arm and the plaques on its side stay in both. |
| Real pencil | Kleiner Bleistift | Tim Reckmann | CC BY 2.0 | Made into 3D Gaussian splats from this one photo with the TRELLIS image-to-3D model (MIT), recentred and scaled. Painted as a classic yellow pencil (yellow body, silver ferrule, pink eraser, a plain HB mark) over the scan’s own shading; other colors, plain wood and the bare scan are in Look. |
| Real tin can | Can opened with side opener | Ll1324 | CC0 1.0 | Made into 3D Gaussian splats from this one photo with the TRELLIS image-to-3D model (MIT), recentred and scaled. The peaches and tomatoes labels are original designs made for Splashery (CC0), wrapped around the can’s side over the scan’s own shading; plain metal and the bare scan are in Look. |
Code
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The renderer, the SOG reader, the camera, the sort, and the pick come from the Splashery pitch page (
splashery-pitch/in ryanjosephkamp/portfolio), MIT, by Ryan Kamp, cut down for a playground. The SOG reader follows @playcanvas/splat-transform’s own reader. -
The WebP decoder (
src/vendor/webp/,webp.mjsandwebp.wasm) is PlayCanvas’s, from @playcanvas/splat-transform, MIT, copyright PlayCanvas Ltd.; its license is beside it. -
The quad’s reach (2.83 standard deviations), the 2-pixel floor, and the minor axis’s floor follow the PlayCanvas engine’s splat shader (MIT), so the two draw alike.
Sourced values
Its glass constants are SCHOTT’s published figures.
Sound
| File | Splashes | Source | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
raspberry-squish.mp3 |
raspberry, blackberry | Squish impact | Bertsz |
raspberry-land-1.mp3, raspberry-land-2.mp3 |
raspberry, blackberry | Impact Sounds | Kenney |
star-cookie-snap.mp3, star-cookie-crumble.mp3 |
cinnamon star cookie | Crisp Crunch.m4a | Yin_Yang_Jake007 |
| File | Splashes | Kenney’s file |
|---|---|---|
kenney-wood-heavy.mp3 |
treasure chest (the lid shuts) | impactWood_heavy_000.ogg |
kenney-wood-medium.mp3 |
music box (the lid shuts) | impactWood_medium_000.ogg |
kenney-metal-medium.mp3 |
knight’s helmet | impactMetal_medium_000.ogg |
kenney-punch-medium.mp3 |
soccer ball, rugby ball, medicine ball | impactPunch_medium_000.ogg |
kenney-soft-medium.mp3 |
tomatoes | impactSoft_medium_001.ogg |
kenney-generic-light.mp3 |
building bricks | impactGeneric_light_000.ogg |
Listening for notes
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Piano: the note model of Qiuqiang Kong, Bochen Li, Xuchen Song, Yuan Wan, and Yuxuan Wang, “High-resolution Piano Transcription with Pedals by Regressing Onset and Offset Times” (2021), from Qiuqiang Kong’s checkpoint (ByteDance), under CC BY 4.0. Changed: the note model alone, exported to ONNX at half size (
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Any instrument: Basic Pitch by Spotify (Bittner et al., 2022), Apache License 2.0, unchanged.
The piano songs in Sound in a Box
Every piece is in the public domain (each composer died more than 70 years ago, or the tune is traditional). Mutopia’s page for each edition says Public Domain (read on October 26, 2026).
| Song | Composer | Played by | Mutopia’s edition (Public Domain) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gymnopédie No. 1 | Erik Satie (1866–1925), 1888 | Grand Piano | Dover Edition |
| Für Elise | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), 1810 | Grand Piano | Breitkopf & Härtel, 1888 |
| Clair de lune | Claude Debussy (1862–1918), 1905 | Grand Piano | E. Fromont, 1905 |
| Ode to Joy | Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, 1824 | Grand Piano | the hymn tune |
| The Entertainer | Scott Joplin (1868–1917), 1902 | Upright Piano | reproduction of the 1902 edition |
| Minuet in G | From the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, 1725 (BWV Anh. 114, now credited to Christian Petzold) | Harpsichord | Bach-Gesellschaft |
| Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star | French folk tune, 1761 | Electronic Keyboard | none for the tune alone (Mutopia has Mozart’s variations on it, also Public Domain) |
| Frère Jacques | French round, 1700s | Electronic Keyboard | none (a traditional round) |
The recordings in the sample song lists
| Song | Made by | Source | License | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clair de lune, from the Suite bergamasque (Claude Debussy, 1905; public domain) | This site: the Grand Piano’s Clair de lune above, the public-domain score played through the Grand Piano’s recorded notes by TEDAgame | assets/songs/clair-de-lune-piano.m4a; the score as in the table above, the notes from 88 piano keys, long reverb |
CC0 1.0 | Rendered ahead of time by the page’s own code and encoded as AAC-LC at 48 kbps, mono, in an .m4a (251 KB, 44.9 s), with tools/song-recording.mjs; the sound is otherwise unchanged. |
| Sample tune | Splashery (our own tune) | assets/toys/song-landscape/sample.wav, served by splashery-assets |
CC0 1.0 | none |
The score is in the public domain (its composer died in 1918 and it was published in 1905; Mutopia’s edition says Public Domain, read on October 26, 2026), and the notes are CC0, so the sound file asks for no credit; Song landscape and Sound in a Box show one beside the song anyway. The file is this site’s own, because splashery-assets isn’t written to from here. No recording of the piece by a pianist is used.
Your book’s manual and its cover picture
Their credit and license are the manual’s: Your book shows the picture on its cover while the manual downloads.
Fonts on the Pitch page
No other page loads them. The page also shows the grape (Dany Bittel, CC BY 4.0), the photo “Forest Away Path” by Seaq68 (CC0 1.0), and the walnut CT scan (Der Sarkissian et al., CWI, CC BY 4.0), each with its credit beside it.
The Night sky’s own assets
| File | Work | Author | License | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
milky-way.webp |
The colour of the sky from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3, equirectangular projection (the 4000 × 2000 PNG) | ESA/Gaia/DPAC; acknowledgement A. Moitinho | CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO | Cut to 2048 × 1024, its point-like stars taken out with a 3 × 3 median, the faint glow of the high galactic latitudes subtracted, scaled, and stored as a square root in WebP. Shared under the same license. |
stars-faint.bin |
HYG database v4.1 (hygdata_v41.csv; the project now lives at codeberg.org/astronexus/hyg) |
David Nash (astronexus.com) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The 20,720 stars fainter than magnitude 6.0 down to 7.5 that Splashery’s sky.json leaves out: position, magnitude, and B−V, packed in 6 bytes each. Shared under the same license. |
moon.jpg |
CGI Moon Kit (the LROC color mosaic, 2025 version), by way of Splashery’s assets/toys/real-worlds/moon-color.jpg |
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (Ernie Wright); Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera team | Public domain (NASA media are generally not subject to copyright in the United States; NASA asks to be credited) | Cut to 512 × 256 and its enhanced colors taken most of the way back to gray. |
Every captured splash on Splashery’s shelf (the Photoreal shelf) is either public domain (CC0) or licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Nothing with a stricter license is used. The same attributions appear in the app under About & credits.
The first four scans
| Splash | Work | Author | License | Changes |
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| Cactus | 3DGS PLY sample data: cactus | steam studio / 3D SCAN STUDIO iris (Lespace Vision Inc.), https://www.steam-studio.jp | CC0 1.0 | Converted to SOG, SH removed, recentred, scaled, cropped to the pot. |
| Strawberry | Strawberry | Dany Bittel (patreon.com/DanyBittel) | CC BY 4.0 | Decimated from 1.5M to 450k splats, SH removed, recentred, scaled. |
| Heart cookie | Heart Cookie | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 | SH removed, turned to face the camera, recentred, scaled. |
| Honeybee | Japanese Bee | YUMA Co., Ltd. (YUMA株式会社) | CC BY 4.0 | Decimated from 978k to 450k splats, SH removed, faint haze and the specimen pin trimmed, turned upright, recentred. |
Where the files came from:
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Cactus: the Steam Studio sample pack linked from the note page above (a Box download of
3DGS_PLY_sample_data.zip); Splashery usescactus_splat3_30kSteps_464k_splats.ply. The pack’s readme says: “These assets are provided under the Creative Commons CC0 license, meaning you’re free to use them for commercial and non-commercial purposes without any copyright restrictions.” The authors ask for a credit link to https://www.steam-studio.jp. -
Strawberry, Heart cookie, Honeybee: SuperSplat scenes with downloads enabled and the CC BY 4.0 license chosen by their authors (checked on each scene page on September 22, 2026). The source files are the SOG data the public SuperSplat viewer streams for each scene.
More scans from SuperSplat
Twelve more SuperSplat scenes, each with downloads enabled and the CC BY 4.0 license chosen by its author (checked on September 23, 2026 through the scene data SuperSplat publishes for each page). The source files are the SOG data the public viewer streams. The Mandeltorus is a rendered fractal rather than a scan.
| Splash | Work | Author | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cluster fly | Cluster Fly | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 |
| May beetle | MAY-BEETLE-HIRES | trilithon | CC BY 4.0 |
| Millipede | millipede spec. | scant3d (https://scant3d.com) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Carder bumblebee | Macroscan - Brown-banded carder bumblebee (Bombus humilis) | macroscans (https://www.macroscans.com) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Raspberry | Raspberry | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 |
| Blackberry | Blackberry | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 |
| Blueberry | Blueberry | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 |
| Grape | Grape | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cinnamon star cookie | Cinnamon Star Cookie | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 |
| Tomatoes | Tomatoes - No Postshot! | simonbethke | CC BY 4.0 |
| Mandeltorus | MandelTorus 4,12,8,1.5 (Spirula Studio) | harry7557558 | CC BY 4.0 |
| Basket | Basket | hollmar | CC BY 4.0 |
More scans from SuperSplat
Twenty-seven are CC BY 4.0. The cherry blossom is also ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA), so what is made from it keeps that license, and it is never merged with another asset. Scenes with no license shown on their page, and ones that show a brand name or a character from a game, were left out.
| Splash | Scene | Author | License |
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| Heart donut | Heart Shaped Donut | John Splat | CC BY 4.0 |
| Sushi boat | SUSHI | leo esteves | CC BY 4.0 |
| Seeded bread loaf | Seeded Bread Loaf | John Splat | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cowboy steak | Cowboy Steak | Eric Cornwell | CC BY 4.0 |
| Stollen | Stollen Confectionery | Dany Bittel | CC BY 4.0 |
| Orange (photo) | Fresh Orange | Storm Geerling | CC BY 4.0 |
| Physalis | Physalis | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 |
| Crystal | Homemade Crystal Gem | Eric Cornwell | CC BY 4.0 |
| Alum crystal | alum-stone | Arshad | CC BY 4.0 |
| Puffin | Puffin | Dan Zeitman | CC BY 4.0 |
| Toy T. rex | Tyrannosaurus Rex | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 |
| Monkey doll | Monkey Doll | Ethan | CC BY 4.0 |
| Souvenir elephant | Thai souvenir elephant toy | Aung Sann Thit | CC BY 4.0 |
| Souvenir turtle | Turtle Souvenir | Tony Rose | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cave lioness | Lioness (Panthera Spelaea) | Spenser DIckerson | CC BY 4.0 |
| Dog plush | Dog Plush - Revopoint POP4 with additional Pictures | PrintedForFun | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| BMX bicycle | BMX Bicycle - Enhanced | Eric Cornwell | CC BY 4.0 |
| Murex shell | Murex Shell | Rigsters | CC BY 4.0 |
| Sunflower (photo) | Sunflower | Natural Ai | CC BY 4.0 |
| White roses | White Rose 2 | Natural Ai | CC BY 4.0 |
| Bonsai tree (photo) | Bonsai Tree | Garrett Nelli | CC BY 4.0 |
| Mushroom (photo) | Rugiboletus extremiorientalis mushroom | Alexander Omelko | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cactus (photo 2) | Cactus 1 | Natural Ai | CC BY 4.0 |
| Crochet Earth | Earth Crochet from Project Hail Mary | Wan Xi | CC BY 4.0 |
| Desk globe | Cheap globe | ilk | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| Cherry blossom (photo) | CHERRY BLOSSOM - HIGH PARK | Todd Smith | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
| Golden maple | Golden Fullmoon Maple | Joshua Trapani | CC BY 4.0 |
| Peonies in a vase | Pink Peonies | Sergiu Zboras | CC BY 4.0 |
| Money tree | Money Tree (Pachira) | Natural Ai | CC BY 4.0 |
| Knight on a horse | A knight with a sword and shield on a black horse | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 |
Scientific captures
Each license was read on the item’s live page that day.
| Splash | Source | Author | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Triceratops skull | Triceratops (Burke Museum) | Luke Shea | CC BY 4.0 |
| Cone shell | Leopard (textile) cone shell | Alfred Duemlein | CC BY 4.0 |
| Celestial globe | Celestial globe | Virtual Museums of Małopolska | CC0 1.0 |
| Armillary sphere | Armillary sphere (1771) | Virtual Museums of Małopolska | CC BY 4.0 |
| Stannern meteorite | Stannern meteorite (NHMW-MIN-A21, A135, A136, A139, A140) | Viola Winkler, Natural History Museum Vienna | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| Fluorite | Mineral: Fluorite | Digital Atlas of Ancient Life (Paleontological Research Institution) | CC0 1.0 |
| Ammonite | Ammonite mineralised with quartz and chalcedony | Virtual Museums of Małopolska | CC0 1.0 |
| Morasko meteorite | “Morasko” iron meteorite | Virtual Museums of Małopolska | CC0 1.0 |
| Pyrite | Pyrite | Digital Atlas of Ancient Life (Paleontological Research Institution) | CC0 1.0 |
| Megalodon tooth | Vertebrate: Carcharocles megalodon (PRI 55188) | Digital Atlas of Ancient Life (Paleontological Research Institution) | CC0 1.0 |
Models from Poly Haven, turned into splats
Fifteen textured 3D models from Poly Haven, all CC0: Poly Haven does not require credit, but it is given here anyway.
| Splash | Model | Author | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real rubber duck | Rubber Duck Toy | Plat251 | CC0 1.0 |
| Garden gnome | Garden Gnome | Bhargav Kubal | CC0 1.0 |
| Wooden elephant | Carved Wooden Elephant | Greg Zaal | CC0 1.0 |
| Marble bust | Marble Bust 01 | Rico Cilliers | CC0 1.0 |
| Ukulele | Ukulele 01 | Joseph Burgan | CC0 1.0 |
| Alarm clock | Alarm Clock 01 | Yann Kervran, James Ray Cock | CC0 1.0 |
| Vintage camera | Camera 01 | Rajil Jose Macatangay | CC0 1.0 |
| Boombox | Boombox | Thomas Paul Mouilleron | CC0 1.0 |
| Real croissant | Croissant | Greg Zaal, Dario Barresi | CC0 1.0 |
| Carrot cake | Carrot Cake | Greg Zaal, James Ray Cock | CC0 1.0 |
| Pomegranate | Food Pomegranate 01 | Oliver Harries | CC0 1.0 |
| Lantern | Lantern 01 | Rajil Jose Macatangay | CC0 1.0 |
| Cat statue | Concrete Cat Statue | Rico Cilliers, Riley Queen | CC0 1.0 |
| Chess set | Chess Set | Riley Queen | CC0 1.0 |
| Horse statue | Horse Statue 01 | Rico Cilliers | CC0 1.0 |
Made from one photo with an image-to-3D model
The sides the photo does not show are the model’s guess.
| Splash | Photo | Photographer | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real pencil | Kleiner Bleistift.jpg>) | Tim Reckmann | CC BY 2.0 |
| Real tin can | Can opened with side opener | Ll1324 | CC0 1.0 |
The labels are original designs drawn by that tool for Splashery, released as CC0; they copy no product’s label.
Real objects: models baked into splats with moving parts
Seven everyday objects made from real 3D models: a photogrammetry scan (the running shoe), detailed photoreal models (CC BY, from Sketchfab, downloaded through the Objaverse mirror on Hugging Face) and a Poly Haven model (CC0). Changes: the fountain pen’s maker’s marks are painted out and its cap moved onto the nib, the water bottle’s cap moved onto its neck, the soda can wears an original plain label painted by the tool (released as CC0; no brand), the shoe’s own bow and the hoodie’s drawstrings and inside label are left out, and the spectacles’ lenses are left out. The glass, the notepad, the coaster, the cap’s stand, the laces, the drawstrings, the lenses, the ink, the water and the foam are kit-built.
| Splash | Model | Author | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fountain pen | Fountain pen in translucent green | chemicalX | CC BY 4.0 |
| Water bottle | Water bottle | danny_p3d | CC BY 4.0 |
| Soda can | Soda Can | RoutineStudio | CC BY 4.0 |
| Running shoe | PB158 Sneaker Low | SCANIMAT | CC BY 4.0 |
| Hoodie | Hoodie | Virtual Pandora | CC BY 4.0 |
| Sunglasses | Round Spectacles | Sean Buckley | CC0 1.0 |
| Baseball cap | Baseball Cap | Scott VanArsdale | CC BY 4.0 |
Procedural splashes
None of them use external assets.
Shape morph
From a concept by Ryan Kamp. The six forms are ported from his Overprint concept, with the Klein bottle using Splashery’s existing Splat equation preset. No reference renderer, font files, or QR encoder were copied. The QR form uses the existing vendored QR generator listed in LICENSES.md, loaded only when that form is selected.
Made by Ryan Kamp, October 14, 2026. The pack code is MIT; the original procedural forms, thumbnail, and sounds are CC0 1.0. They use no outside assets.
One splat, many splats
From a concept by Ryan Kamp. Made by Ryan Kamp, October 14, 2026. The port’s code is MIT, and its procedural splats and thumbnail are CC0. Text uses the device’s system font (the existing bitmap font in Node tools). Visitor pictures are processed locally and are not shipped assets.
Splat Name
From Ryan Kamp’s Toy Box name toy. The procedural letters, paint colors, and sounds are CC0 1.0; the code is MIT. Other scripts and emoji use the device’s own fonts. No concept renderer or other external asset ships with the splash. The first version was made by Ryan Kamp, October 14, 2026.
Baked assets
Made by Ryan Kamp, CC0 1.0.
Protein structures
The protein splash shows real structures from the RCSB Protein Data Bank. PDB data files are in the public domain under CC0 1.0 (wwPDB usage policy).
| Entry | Structure | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 1UBQ | Ubiquitin, refined at 1.8 Å (1987) | S. Vijay-Kumar, C. E. Bugg, W. J. Cook |
| 4INS | 2Zn pig insulin crystals at 1.5 Å (1990) | G. G. Dodson, E. J. Dodson, D. C. Hodgkin, N. W. Isaacs, M. Vijayan |
| 1EMA | Green fluorescent protein from Aequorea victoria (1996) | M. Ormö, S. J. Remington |
| 4HHB | Human deoxyhaemoglobin at 1.74 Å (1984) | G. Fermi, M. F. Perutz |
DNA to protein
NCBI sequence records are in the public domain (NCBI policies); PDB entries are CC0 1.0.
| Source | What | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| NM_000518.5 | Human hemoglobin subunit beta (HBB) mRNA | NCBI RefSeq |
| NM_000207.3 | Human insulin (INS) mRNA, transcript variant 1 | NCBI RefSeq |
| NM_000239.3 | Human lysozyme (LYZ) mRNA | NCBI RefSeq |
| M62653.1 | Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein mRNA | D. C. Prasher and others (1992) |
| 4HHB | Human deoxyhemoglobin at 1.74 Å (1984), a beta chain | G. Fermi, M. F. Perutz |
| 1MSO | T6 human insulin at 1.0 Å (2003) | G. D. Smith, W. A. Pangborn, R. H. Blessing |
| 1LZ1 | Human lysozyme at 1.5 Å (1981) | P. J. Artymiuk, C. C. F. Blake |
| 1GFL | Green fluorescent protein (1996) | F. Yang, L. G. Moss, G. N. Phillips Jr. |
Chemistry data
The periodic table, the atom splash’s 118 elements, the molecule gallery and the DNA come from published data.
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Mass numbers (the most abundant isotope, or the longest-lived one in brackets): NIST, Atomic Weights and Isotopic Compositions (Coursey, Schwab, Tsai and Dragoset), for elements 1 to 94; PubChem’s Periodic Table for 95 to 108; the IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements (May 4, 2022) for 109 to 118.
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Ground-state electron configurations: the NIST Atomic Spectra Database (Kramida, Ralchenko, Reader and the NIST ASD Team), ionization energies and ground levels, for 1 to 108; PubChem’s predicted configurations for 109 to 118.
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Emission lines (the photon’s color): the strongest visible line (380 to 750 nm) of each element’s neutral atom, or of its ion when the atom has none there, from the NIST Handbook of Basic Atomic Spectroscopic Data (Sansonetti and Martin), elements 1 to 99. The color of a wavelength follows Dan Bruton’s approximation of the visible spectrum.
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Element families: PubChem’s Periodic Table (NCBI, public domain).
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Molecule gallery: PubChem 3D conformers (public domain) of CIDs 5793 (glucose), 5988 (sucrose), 2244 (aspirin), 1983 (paracetamol), 3672 (ibuprofen), 5904 (penicillin G), 54670067 (vitamin C), 681 (dopamine), 5202 (serotonin), 5816 (adrenaline), 896 (melatonin), 6305 (tryptophan), 1548943 (capsaicin), 1183 (vanillin), 1254 (menthol), 311 (citric acid), 5997 (cholesterol), 6013 (testosterone) and 5957 (ATP).
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DNA: base pairs 3 to 6 of 1BNA, the B-DNA dodecamer (1981; H. R. Drew, R. M. Wing, T. Takano, C. Broka, S. Tanaka, K. Itakura, R. E. Dickerson), wwPDB, CC0 1.0; its hydrogens are added at the usual bond lengths.
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Crystals: lattice constants at room temperature; alpha quartz’s positions after Le Page and Donnay (1976).
Real elements
Each license was checked on the live page on October 5, 2026.
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80 photos from Images of Elements (Jumk.de Webprojects), CC BY 3.0 (“The images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, unless otherwise noted.”; none of these is otherwise noted), each credited by a link to its element’s page: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Neon, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Silicon, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Chlorine, Argon, Potassium, Calcium, Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium, Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, Gallium, Germanium, Arsenic, Selenium, Bromine, Krypton, Rubidium, Strontium, Yttrium, Zirconium, Niobium, Molybdenum, Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium, Silver, Cadmium, Indium, Tin, Antimony, Tellurium, Iodine, Xenon, Cesium, Barium, Lanthanum, Cerium, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Samarium, Europium, Gadolinium, Terbium, Dysprosium, Holmium, Erbium, Thulium, Ytterbium, Lutetium, Hafnium, Tantalum, Tungsten, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, Mercury, Thallium, Lead, Bismuth.
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Fluorine: “Liquid fluorine.jpg” by Prof B. G. Mueller, CC BY-SA 3.0, on Commons. The cut-out sample made from it is shared under the same license, shown beside the sample in the splash.
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Technetium: “Technetium-sample.jpg” by Marco Cardin, CC BY-SA 4.0, on Commons. The cut-out sample made from it is shared under the same license, shown beside the sample in the splash.
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Promethium: “Promethium Metal Buttons.png” by E. J. Wheelwright, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Public domain, on Commons.
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Radium: “Radium226.jpg” by grenadier, CC BY 3.0, on Commons.
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Protactinium: “Protactinium-233.jpg” by U.S. Department of Energy, Public domain, on Commons.
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Uranium: “Depleted Uranium.jpg” by 范皓程, CC BY 4.0, on Commons.
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Neptunium: “Neptunium2.jpg” by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Public domain, on Commons.
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Plutonium: “Plutonium3.jpg” by U.S. Department of Energy, Public domain, on Commons.
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Americium: “Americium microscope.jpg” by Bionerd, CC BY 3.0, on Commons.
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Berkelium: “Berkelium metal.jpg” by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Public domain, on Commons.
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Californium: “Californium.jpg” by U.S. Department of Energy, Public domain, on Commons.
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Einsteinium: “EinsteiniumGlow.JPG” by R. G. Haire, U.S. Department of Energy, Public domain, on Commons.
For the 26 elements with no photo of a real sample, the splash shows a stand-in picture, said plainly to be one: the person, place or flag the element is named for, or a mineral that holds traces of it. Each from Wikimedia Commons, its license checked on the file page on October 5, 2026:
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Polonium: “Flag of Poland.svg” by Wikimedia Commons contributors, Public domain, on Commons.
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Astatine: “Autunite-20885.jpg” by Robert M. Lavinsky (iRocks.com), CC BY-SA 3.0, on Commons. The picture made from it is shared under the same license, shown beside it in the splash.
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Radon: “Granite 5 (48674315157).jpg” by James St. John, CC BY 2.0, on Commons.
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Francium: “Thorite-288916.jpg” by Robert M. Lavinsky (iRocks.com), CC BY-SA 3.0, on Commons. The picture made from it is shared under the same license, shown beside it in the splash.
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Actinium: “Uraninite-225146.jpg” by Robert M. Lavinsky (iRocks.com), CC BY-SA 3.0, on Commons. The picture made from it is shared under the same license, shown beside it in the splash.
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Thorium: “Thorianite-729924.jpg” by Kelly Nash, CC BY 3.0, on Commons.
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Curium: “Marie Curie c1920.jpg” by Henri Manuel, Public domain, on Commons.
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Fermium: “Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg” by U.S. Department of Energy, Public domain, on Commons.
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Mendelevium: “DIMendeleevCab.jpg” by Unknown photographer, Public domain, on Commons.
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Nobelium: “AlfredNobel2.jpg” by Unknown photographer, Public domain, on Commons.
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Lawrencium: “Ernest Lawrence.jpg” by Nobel Foundation, Public domain, on Commons.
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Rutherfordium: “Ernest Rutherford LOC.jpg” by George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, on Commons.
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Dubnium: “Coat of arms of Dubna.svg” by City of Dubna, Public domain, on Commons.
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Seaborgium: “Glenn Seaborg - 1964.jpg” by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Public domain, on Commons.
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Bohrium: “Niels Bohr.jpg” by AB Lagrelius & Westphal, Public domain, on Commons.
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Hassium: “Coat of arms of Hesse.svg” by State of Hesse, Public domain, on Commons.
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Meitnerium: “Lise Meitner NatGeo.jpg” by Harris & Ewing, Public domain, on Commons.
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Darmstadtium: “Wappen Darmstadt.svg” by City of Darmstadt (Hessisches Staatsarchiv), Public domain, on Commons.
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Roentgenium: “Roentgen2.jpg” by Unknown photographer, Public domain, on Commons.
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Copernicium: “Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg” by Unknown painter (Toruń Town Hall portrait, c. 1580), Public domain, on Commons.
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Nihonium: “Flag of Japan.svg” by Government of Japan, Public domain, on Commons.
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Flerovium: “RUSMARKA-1660 (cropped).jpg” by Russian Post (Marka); designer A. Povarikhin, Public domain, on Commons.
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Moscovium: “Flag of Moscow, Russia.svg” by City of Moscow, Public domain, on Commons.
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Livermorium: “Downtown Livermore California.jpg” by LPS.1, CC0, on Commons.
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Tennessine: “Flag of Tennessee.svg” by State of Tennessee; drawn by -xfi-, Public domain, on Commons.
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Oganesson: “Yuri Oganessian (cropped).jpg” by VPRO, CC BY-SA 3.0, on Commons. The picture made from it is shared under the same license, shown beside it in the splash.
The facts come from PubChem’s periodic table and element pages (NCBI; public domain U.S. government data); the uses are our own short sentences, each backed by words PubChem quotes from Jefferson Lab and Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy).
Word vectors
The word vectors splash uses GloVe word vectors (Wikipedia 2014 + Gigaword 5, 50 dimensions) by Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher and Christopher D.
Handwritten digits
Alpaydin and C. Kaynak, 1998; CC BY 4.0). The idea of a 3D network that reads your drawing comes from okdalto’s CNN-visualization (LGPL-3.0); no code or weights were taken from it.
Pictures and pages
- The photo “Tulip field” (
assets/toys/picture-lab/photo.jpg) by DennisM2 on Flickr, CC0 1.0 (checked on the live page on September 28, 2026). Unchanged (Flickr’s 1024 by 768 copy).
Files and web addresses people open in the Picture lab are read in their browser and never uploaded.
The code is MIT. Original benchmark text, charts, diagrams, and comparison recording contributions are CC0. The photo input reuses the credited Picture frame sample. These pages retain splat paper and bindings beneath continuous picture surfaces.
The red PDF regression fixture is original CC0, made by Ryan Kamp, October 16, 2026.
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assets/toys/photo-album/lighthouse.jpg: “The lighthouse” by -anna–. -
assets/toys/photo-album/sailboat.jpg: “Sailboat” by leex6221. -
assets/toys/photo-album/tulips.jpg: “Tulips” by Lucía Quiñónez. -
assets/toys/photo-album/daffodils.jpg: “CRW_2034.jpg” (daffodils and tulips) by patrick jourdheuille. -
assets/toys/photo-album/red-barn.jpg: “Barn A Glow” by Alan Levine. -
assets/toys/photo-album/seashell.jpg: “Seashell by the Seashore” by samsonites89. -
assets/toys/picture-frame/islands.jpg: “Sailboat in the Kornati Isalnds” by Camilla K (the digital frame also steps through the album’s photos).
Photos and PDFs people open in these splashes are read in their browser and never uploaded.
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A six-second scene from Big Buck Bunny (the bunny and the butterfly, 1:44.5 to 1:50.5, with no title card or logo), © Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0 (checked on peach.blender.org’s “About” page on September 28, 2026). Cut from the 640 by 360 download at download.blender.org/peach and saved as
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A race horse galloping (
assets/toys/screen/horse.gif), from Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs of 1887, public domain (Wikimedia Commons, checked on September 28, 2026). Unchanged. -
saturn-v: 2:25.0 to 2:30.9 (one shot) of “Ultimate Saturn V Launch w Enhanced Sound”, NASA (Marshall Space Flight Center), February 6, 2020; NASA media, not subject to copyright in the United States (NASA’s media usage guidelines). The full frame’s height, centered 45% across, with NASA’s sound. -
trip-to-the-moon: 6:13.7 to 6:19.7 of Georges Méliès’ Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon, 1902), public domain (Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Mark 1.0), cut from the Internet Archive’s copy. The middle square, two-thirds of the frame’s height, with no sound. -
sintel-closeup: 5:42.5 to 5:48.5 of Sintel, © copyright Blender Foundation | durian.blender.org, CC BY 3.0 (durian.blender.org/sharing), from the 1080p file on download.blender.org. The full frame’s height, centered, with the film’s sound (in stereo). -
artemis-ii: 0:40.0 to 0:46.0 of “Artemis II launch Causeway Slow-motion”, NASA/Sam Lott, April 1, 2026; NASA media, not subject to copyright in the United States (as above). A square 36% of the 4K frame’s height on the rocket (centered 50% across and 42% down), with no sound (the file’s sound track is silent). -
kilauea: 0:10.0 to 0:16.0 of “April 22, 2025 — Kīlauea Episode 18 Lava Fountaining Video”, USGS video by H. Winslow and M. Patrick, public domain (USGS copyrights and credits), clear of the file’s USGS logo cards. The full frame’s height, centered 48% across; the file has no sound. -
cheetah: 0:36.7 to 0:42.7 of “Rozi the cheetah running at the Cincinnati Zoo”, HAV0Xunderscore, CC0 1.0. The full frame’s height, centered 47% across; the file has no sound.
GIFs and videos people open in it are read in their browser and never uploaded.
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The race horse GIF above (Muybridge, 1887, public domain), unchanged.
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“Sintel” (trailer, 29.5 to 35.5 s), © Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, from the trailer on download.blender.org (durian.blender.org).
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“Tears of Steel” (8:30.5 to 8:36.5), © Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0, from the 720p download on download.blender.org (mango.blender.org).
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“Elephants Dream” (5:29.7 to 5:35.7), © 2006 Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute / www.elephantsdream.org, CC BY 2.5, from the download on download.blender.org (orange.blender.org).
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Big Buck Bunny, 1:44.5 to 2:14.5, © Blender Foundation (Internet Archive source, CC BY 3.0 US).
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Sintel, 2:15 to 2:45, © Blender Foundation (Internet Archive source, CC BY 3.0).
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Elephants Dream, 5:29.7 to 5:59.7, © 2006 Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute / www.elephantsdream.org (film’s copyright notice, CC BY 2.5, Internet Archive download). This matches the short sample’s license; the film’s own notice takes precedence over the archive’s 3.0 US descriptor.
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Tears of Steel, a 27-second city and robot montage, © Blender Foundation (Internet Archive source, CC BY 3.0). The selected spans are 1:10 to 1:16, 1:30 to 1:32, 1:36 to 1:38, 1:43 to 1:45, 8:41 to 8:48, and 9:40 to 9:48; identifiable live-action faces and modern firearms are excluded.
The live archive pages’ declared licenses were checked on October 12, 2026. The original Blender project pages initially returned HTTP 403 here; Elephants Dream’s own copyright page was reachable on recheck and confirms CC BY 2.5 for the film, including its sound. Each cut and its derived depth retain its source’s CC BY license.
- Sprite Fright, 0:05 to 0:35 (a camp in the woods), © 2021 Blender Studio (Internet Archive source, CC BY 4.0 there too):
sprite-long.webmandsprite-long.mp2depth.
Each cut and its depth keep the film’s CC BY license.
It is used by tests and has no shelf entry or automatic fetch. The code and build tools for tasks 38 and 48 are made by Ryan Kamp, offered under Splashery’s MIT license.
Studio
Songs people open are decoded in their browser and never uploaded. The Chladni plate uses the classic square-plate model; no data or code was taken from anywhere.
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“Burger” from the Food Kit by Kenney, CC0 1.0 (checked on the live page and in the kit’s own license file on September 29, 2026). The color map is embedded in the GLB.
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“Antique Ceramic Vase 01” by James Ray Cock on Poly Haven, CC0 1.0 (checked on the live page on September 29, 2026). Its 1k glTF with only the color texture kept.
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“Camera 01” by Rajil Jose Macatangay on Poly Haven, CC0 1.0 (checked on the live page on October 5, 2026). Its 1k glTF with only the color texture kept.
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“Boombox” by Thomas Paul Mouilleron on Poly Haven, CC0 1.0 (checked on the live page on October 5, 2026). Its 1k glTF with only the color texture kept.
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“Lantern 01” by Rajil Jose Macatangay on Poly Haven, CC0 1.0 (checked on the live page on October 5, 2026). Its 1k glTF with only the color texture kept.
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“Bronze Whale Statue” by Tina on Poly Haven, CC0 1.0 (checked on the live page on October 5, 2026). Its 1k glTF with only the color texture kept.
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“Rockingchair 01” by Jorge Camacho on Poly Haven, CC0 1.0 (checked on the live page on October 5, 2026). Its 1k glTF with only the color texture kept.
Models people open are converted in their browser and never uploaded.
Each license was checked on its live Wikimedia Commons page on September 29, 2026 (the last three on October 5, 2026):
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“Forest Away Path” by Seaq68 (from Pixabay, 2017), CC0 1.0, on Commons.
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“Carleton Street off Leeman Road, York” by Malcolmxl5, CC0 1.0, on Commons.
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“Still Life with Cheese” by Antoine Vollon, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access program, CC0 1.0, on Commons.
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“Spiral Staircase, Keck Center (U.S. National Academies)” by Jorge Mendoza, CC0 1.0, on Commons.jpg>).
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“Escalier monumental, Neue Burg, Vienna” by Jebulon, CC0 1.0, on Commons.
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“Wildflowers in foreground” by PookieFugglestein, CC0 1.0, on Commons.
The depth is worked out on the device by Depth Anything V2 Small (Lihe Yang and others, Apache 2.0; the quantized ONNX build is by onnx-community), run by ONNX Runtime Web (MIT). Photos people open are processed in their browser and never uploaded.
The live splashes’ test signals (claps, sung notes) are made by our own code; nothing from the microphone, the camera or a shared screen is recorded, stored or sent.
Sound effects
Every one is CC0 1.0 (public domain), checked on its live page on September 30, 2026. Each was cut, faded, made mono, peak-normalized and saved as a small MP3; it loads only when its splash is tapped.
| File | Work | Author | License |
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puzzle-cube-turn.mp3 |
Cube Turn - 9 (a puzzle cube turning) | SpaceJoe | CC0 1.0 |
balloon-dog-pop.mp3 |
Balloon-Burst-07.wav | Gniffelbaf | CC0 1.0 |
book-page.mp3 |
Book Turn Page 2.wav | esperri | CC0 1.0 |
apple-bite.mp3 |
Bite (Apple) | wadaltmon | CC0 1.0 |
taco-crack.mp3 |
chips crunch sound | TomatoHater | CC0 1.0 |
fireworks-burst.mp3 |
Firework Explosion 3 | a deleted Freesound account (deleted_user_3544904) | CC0 1.0 |
colosseum-crowd.mp3 |
cheering and clapping crowd 1 | AlaskaRobotics | CC0 1.0 |
colosseum-hooves.mp3 |
Horse and Carriage.mp3 | maadmacs | CC0 1.0 |
sports-car-rev.mp3 |
Car Engine Revving.WAV | DigPro120 | CC0 1.0 |
tractor-engine.mp3 |
Tractor whirring | vonis22 | CC0 1.0 |
propeller-plane-engine.mp3 |
Aeroplane Passing Close.wav | paulprit | CC0 1.0 |
bow-and-target-release.mp3 |
Bow Release (Bow and Arrow) 3 | Ali_6868 | CC0 1.0 |
frog-croak.mp3 |
Frog croaking sound effect | betterchinese | CC0 1.0 |
frog-fly.mp3 |
Fly_Buzzing_Edited.wav | AmberdeMeillon | CC0 1.0 |
bonsai-snip.mp3 |
scissors cut.wav | mywhats | CC0 1.0 |
oak-leaves.mp3 |
FallingLeaves | falcospizaetus | CC0 1.0 |
rocks-pebbles.mp3 |
Slow Pebble Tumble.wav | bbrocer | CC0 1.0 |
iceberg-crack.mp3 |
Ice Crack 1 | j_p_higgins | CC0 1.0 |
klein-bottle-slosh.mp3 |
Bottle Slosh 2 | alegemaate | CC0 1.0 |
spinning-top-spin.mp3 |
Metallic Spinning Top (Dry Sound).wav | Uzbazur | CC0 1.0 |
chess-set-move.mp3 |
Piece Placement.mp3 | el_boss | CC0 1.0 |
robot-wind.mp3 |
Wind-up sound | Breviceps | CC0 1.0 |
dice-throw.mp3 |
Casino Audio 1.1: dice-throw-1.ogg and dice-throw-3.ogg | Kenney (kenney.nl) | CC0 1.0 |
Each license was checked on its live Commons page on September 30, 2026 (and again on October 5, 2026):
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“Statue Of Liberty 4k Drone” by the Dronalist (14 seconds from 3:24), CC BY 3.0, on Commons.
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“Walking in EDINBURGH - Scotland (UK) - 4K 60fps (UHD)” by POPtravel (10 seconds from 7:32), CC BY 3.0, on Commons.
New Video to 3D captures, checked on their live Commons pages on October 12, 2026:
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Forest path, walked, by Vitaly Zdanevich: CC BY 4.0, 20 seconds from 0 seconds.
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Ruined courtyard, flown over, by Sillerkiil: CC0 1.0, 20 seconds from 18 seconds.
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Coastal ruins, drone pass, by Sillerkiil: CC BY-SA 4.0, 20 seconds from 14 seconds.
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Castle courtyard, orbited, by Sillerkiil: CC BY-SA 4.0, 20 seconds from 24 seconds.
The transformations were made by Ryan Kamp. These are real captures, initially solved and trained with Splat.js. Their silent 480p source cuts, camera paths, and splats retain each source license, including CC BY-SA. The models use bounded phone budgets and larger desktop tiers; every completed iteration, initial bake, and continuation is recorded in the sample JSON. The Forest path has a new COLMAP camera solve. The sample JSON records actual resolutions, model hashes, and training steps; the audit gives the comparison protocol and results. All six default models are loaded through source-credited BKD1 manifests and gzip chunks. The small PLYs remain offline build sources. The selected shots were inspected for identifiable people, logos, and brands.
Their source licenses and hashes are recorded beside them; the audit links to that evidence.
Video to 3D real-clip work was made by Ryan Kamp, under MIT. Each derivative retains its source’s license and attribution beside the asset. The task-88 audit records measurements.
The camera path and the splats are worked out on the device by Splat.js (Stratum1 GmbH, MIT). Videos people open are read in their browser and never uploaded.
Its .sog reading and saving use the WebP codec from splat-transform (PlayCanvas, MIT), which is libwebp (Google, BSD-3-Clause) compiled to WebAssembly.
Geological Survey’s 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) point clouds, read from the USGS 3DEP Entwine Point Tiles on AWS. They are U.S. Government works in the public domain (checked on the AWS registry page on October 5, 2026). Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco: project CA_SanFrancisco_1_B23, a 300 m box, 450,000 of its 8 million points.
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Golden Gate Bridge’s south end and Fort Point: project CA_SanFrancisco_1_B23, a 340 m box, 450,000 points.
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Meteor Crater (Barringer meteorite crater), Arizona: project AZ_NorthEast_3_D23, a 1.6 km box, 450,000 of its 8.5 million points.
Each keeps the points’ classification and intensity, without the noise classes, moved to UTM meters. LAZ files are read with laz-perf (Hobu, Inc., Apache-2.0).
Sound effects
Every one is CC0 1.0 (public domain), checked on its live Freesound page on October 2, 2026.
| File | Work | Author | License |
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tin-can-real-roll.mp3 |
Rolling Can Sound 2 | cower | CC0 1.0 |
mitochondrion-furnace.mp3 |
Gas furnace - Ignition happy | ldezem | CC0 1.0 |
mitochondrion-fire.mp3 |
Gas burner 01.wav | PegasusCZ | CC0 1.0 |
paramecium-swim.mp3 |
Water, Gentle Movement.wav | Daen23 | CC0 1.0 |
banana-peel.mp3 |
Banana Peel | spanrucker | CC0 1.0 |
spring-toy-slinky.mp3 |
slinky Copy.wav | foxraid | CC0 1.0 |
soap-bubbles-blow.mp3 |
Blow air short | yehdawgo | CC0 1.0 |
owl-hoot-short.mp3 |
owl_hooting_000102_0145S3 002-070 000-002 068-074.wav | Gerent | CC0 1.0 |
decorated-tree-bell.mp3 |
Glockenspiel - C5 (glock_medium_C5.wav) | sgossner | CC0 1.0 |
decorated-tree-sleigh.mp3 |
Sleigh bells hit | Selector | CC0 1.0 |
helicopter-chop.mp3 |
Helicopter Flyby / Pass | mil0001 | CC0 1.0 |
steam-train-chuff.mp3 |
d_s478_underbridge.wav | relwin | CC0 1.0 |
popcorn-pops.mp3 |
Popcorn | elricadavis | CC0 1.0 |
water-bottle-pour.mp3 |
Pouring water into a glass | ahamirikia | CC0 1.0 |
lungs-breath-b.mp3 |
- Deep Breath | rrehl | CC0 1.0 |
bicycle-bell.mp3 |
Bicycle Bell.wav | PanosA | CC0 1.0 |
your-book-magazine.mp3 |
Turn Page | KikeVilaplana | CC0 1.0 |
your-book-paperback.mp3 |
Turning pages in a book | Mateusz_Chenc | CC0 1.0 |
your-book-hardcover.mp3 |
Hardback 1 | magnuswaker | CC0 1.0 |
donut-tear.mp3 |
bread slice serrated knife cut and rip | spanrucker | CC0 1.0 |
teddy-bear-plush.mp3 |
08. Relleno de oso.wav | lemigoga | CC0 1.0 |
splat-field-ocean.mp3 |
Gentle Ocean Waves Loop | kkenny101 | CC0 1.0 |
soap-bubbles-pops.mp3 |
mutliple bubbles bursting | florianreichelt | CC0 1.0 |
Science
Each license was checked on the live source page on September 30, 2026.
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Thermal ellipsoids: aspirin (form II) at 300 K, COD 2104857, deposited by E. J. Chan, T. R. Welberry, A. P. Heerdegen and D. J. Goossens (Acta Crystallographica B 66, 696–707, 2010), in the public domain (the Crystallography Open Database: “All data on this site have been placed in the public domain by the contributors”). The file is unchanged.
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Thermal ellipsoids: crambin at 0.54 Å, PDB 1EJG, by C. Jelsch, M. M. Teeter, V. Lamzin, V. Pichon-Pesme, R. H. Blessing and C. Lecomte (PNAS 97, 3171–3176, 2000), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy. The PDB file with its header, atom and ANISOU records kept and the water left out.
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The test fixtures
tests/fixtures/sci/paracetamol-cod-2104364.cifandtests/fixtures/sci/sucrose-cod-2300557.cifare COD 2104364 (paracetamol at 100 K) and COD 2300557 (sucrose at 298 K, by A. O. Dmitrienko and I. S. Bushmarinov, Journal of Applied Crystallography 48, 2015), public domain, unchanged. -
Super-resolution microscope: “Microtubules and clathrin in a Cos cell” by Christophe Leterrier (Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto) on ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.5507427, CC BY 4.0. A subset: the 170,401 localizations in a 12 µm square of the cell, cut by
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Super-resolution microscope: “Zola-3D NUP full nucleus” (nuclear pores over a whole nucleus, in 3D) by Andrey Aristov (Institut Pasteur), uploaded by Benoit Lelandais, on ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.7233696, CC BY 4.0. A subset: a random half of the localizations (149,633), cut by
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Galaxy in a box: the FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulation m12i, snapshot 600 (z = 0), from the FIRE-2 public data release on FlatHUB, CC BY 4.0. As the release asks: “We use the publicly-available FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations (Wetzel et al. 2023, 2025), from the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project, generated using the Gizmo code (Hopkins 2015) and the FIRE-2 physics model (Hopkins et al. 2018).” m12i was introduced by Wetzel et al. (2016). A subset: 300,000 of the 2.37 million gas particles in a 40 × 12 × 40 kpc box round the galaxy, cut by
tools/sci-galaxy.mjs.
Science
The Crystallography Open Database dedicates all its data to the public domain under CC0 (“All data in the COD and the database itself are dedicated to the public domain and licensed under the CC0 License”); the PDB’s data are CC0 under the wwPDB data policy.
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Thermal ellipsoids: Table sugar (sucrose), COD 2300557, by A. O. Dmitrienko and I. S. Bushmarinov (Journal of Applied Crystallography 48, 2015), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Urea, COD 1566505, by P. N. Ruth, R. Herbst-Irmer and D. Stalke (IUCrJ 9 286, 2022), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), COD 2300646, by C. J. McMonagle and M. R. Probert (Journal of Applied Crystallography 52 445, 2019), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Glycine (neutron), COD 2103308, by P. Langan, S. A. Mason, D. Myles and B. P. Schoenborn (Acta Crystallographica Section B 58 728, 2002), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Acetaminophen (paracetamol), COD 7232757, by M. R. Ward and I. D. H. Oswald (CrystEngComm 21 4437, 2019), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Ibuprofen (neutron), COD 2006278, by N. Shankland, C. C. Wilson, A. J. Florence and P. J. Cox (Acta Crystallographica Section C 53 951, 1997), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Vitamin B3 (nicotinamide, neutron), COD 2003053, by Y. Miwa, T. Mizuno, K. Tsuchida et al. (Acta Crystallographica, Section B 55 78, 1999), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Quartz, COD 9000775, by L. Levien, C. T. Prewitt and D. J. Weidner (American Mineralogist 65 920, 1980), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Calcite, COD 9000965, by S. A. Markgraf and R. J. Reeder (American Mineralogist 70 590, 1985), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Corundum (ruby and sapphire), COD 1000032, by L. Lutterotti and P. Scardi (Journal of Applied Crystallography 23 246, 1990), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Beryl (emerald), COD 9000992, by G. E. Brown and B. A. Mills (American Mineralogist 71 547, 1986), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Zircon, COD 9000684, by R. M. Hazen and L. W. Finger (American Mineralogist 64 196, 1979), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Garnet (pyrope), COD 2108142, by R. Destro, R. Ruffo, P. Roversi et al. (Acta Crystallographica Section B 73 722, 2017), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Pyrite (fool’s gold), COD 1564890, by K. Ma, R. Lefèvre, Q. Li et al. (Chemical Science, 2021), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Ice from Antarctica (neutron), COD 9015208, by A. D. Fortes, I. G. Wood, D. Grigoriev et al. (Journal of Chemical Physics 120 11376, 2004), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Rock salt, COD 7132177, by M. Mettler, A. Dewandre, N. Tumanov et al. (Chemical communications, 2023), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Gypsum (neutron), COD 2300258, by P. F. Henry, M. T. Weller and C. C. Wilson (Journal of Applied Crystallography 42 1176, 2009), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Blue vitriol (chalcanthite, neutron), COD 9008253, by G. E. Bacon and D. H. Titterton (Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 141 330, 1975), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Lysozyme, 0.65 Å, PDB 2VB1, by J. Wang, M. Dauter, R. Alkire et al. (Acta Crystallogr.,Sect.D 63 1254, 2007), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
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Thermal ellipsoids: An iron-sulfur protein (HiPIP), 0.48 Å, PDB 5D8V, by Y. Hirano, K. Takeda and K. Miki (Nature 534 281, 2016), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
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Thermal ellipsoids: Rubredoxin, 0.68 Å, PDB 2DSX, by C. Chen, Y. Lin, Y. Huang and M. Liu (Biochem.Biophys.Res.Commun. 349 79, 2006), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
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Thermal ellipsoids: Z-DNA, 0.55 Å, PDB 3P4J, by K. Brzezinski, A. Brzuszkiewicz, M. Dauter et al. (Nucleic Acids Res. 39 6238, 2011), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
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Thermal ellipsoids: B-DNA, 0.74 Å, PDB 1D8G, by C. Kielkopf, S. Ding, P. Kuhn and D. Rees (J.Mol.Biol. 296 787, 2000), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
Files people open in these splashes are read in their browser and never uploaded.
Earth and maps
Each license was checked on the live source page on October 5, 2026. U.S. government works are in the public domain.
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Elevation: the U.S. Geological Survey’s 3D Elevation Program (“All 3DEP products are public domain”), for the Grand Canyon, Mount St. Helens today and Yosemite Valley.
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Mount St. Helens before 1980: J. A. Bard and R. Phillips-Netherton (2024), Digital elevation model of Mount St. Helens, Washington and vicinity prior to the 1980 eruption, U.S. Geological Survey data release, public domain.
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Aerial imagery: The National Map’s orthoimagery basemap (USDA Farm Service Agency NAIP, with NASA Landsat at small scales), public domain.
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Relief of the sea floor and the maps: NOAA NCEI’s ETOPO1 Global Relief Model and coastal elevation models (Bar Harbor), public domain.
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Tides: NOAA CO-OPS tide predictions for Bar Harbor, Maine (8413320), public domain (disclaimers).
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Hurricane Polo: GOES-East ABI band 13 imagery (NOAA NESDIS), served by NASA’s Global Imagery Browse Services; the NHC best track (NOAA); the map from NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation (true color). All public domain.
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The earthquakes’ globe and the storks’ map: NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation (true color, through NASA GIBS), public domain.
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Yosemite Valley’s streams and land cover: the USGS National Hydrography Dataset and the National Land Cover Database 2021 (USGS and the MRLC consortium), public domain.
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The living city: the City of Helsinki’s Helsinki 3D reality mesh (2017 aerial photogrammetry), CC BY 4.0. A 550 m block round Senate Square and the Market Square, cropped and turned into splats by
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Earthquakes: the USGS earthquake feeds (“USGS-authored or produced data and information are considered to be in the U.S. Public Domain”). The splash reads the live feed when it opens or its plaque is tapped, and shows its source and time beside it; nothing is stored or sent. The shipped snapshot keeps only records of networks us, hv, at and pt (USGS and NOAA authored).
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White storks: S. Rotics, M. Kaatz, Y. S. Resheff, S. F. Turjeman, D. Zurell, N. Sapir, U. Eggers, A. Flack, W. Fiedler, F. Jeltsch, M. Wikelski and R. Nathan (2016), Data from: The challenges of the first migration, Movebank Data Repository, CC0 1.0. The paper: Journal of Animal Ecology, doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12525.
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Thermal ellipsoids: Vanillin (the taste of vanilla), COD 7242089, by S. Sundareswaran and S. Karuppannan (CrystEngComm 23 1634, 2021), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Capsaicin (the heat of chili peppers), COD 2312782, by M. Lozinšek (Acta crystallographica. Section C, Structural chemistry 81 188, 2025), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Salicylic acid (from willow bark), COD 2100548, by P. Munshi and T. N. Guru Row (Acta Crystallographica Section B 62 612, 2006), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Morphine, COD 2237167, by T. Gelbrich, D. E. Braun and U. J. Griesser (Acta Crystallographica Section E 69 o2, 2013), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Cytosine, a letter of DNA, COD 2019803, by B. Sridhar, J. B. Nanubolu and K. Ravikumar (Acta Crystallographica Section C 71, 2015), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Guanine, a letter of DNA, COD 2015488, by K. Guille and W. Clegg (Acta Crystallographica Section C 62 o515, 2006), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Serotonin, a messenger in the brain, COD 2244048, by M. Naeem, A. R. Chadeayne, J. A. Golen and D. R. Manke (Acta Crystallographica Section E 78, 2022), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: NAD+, a helper molecule in every cell, COD 1507221, by B. Guillot, N. Muzet, E. Artacho et al. (The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107 9109, 2003), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Alanine, the simplest amino acid with a side chain, COD 8000310, by L. A. Malaspina, E. K. Wieduwilt, J. Bergmann et al. (The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6973, 2019), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Histidine, an amino acid (neutron, 5 K), COD 2108879, by G. Novelli, C. J. McMonagle, F. Kleemiss et al. (Acta Crystallographica Section B 77, 2021), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: Thymidine, a building block of DNA, COD 2104143, by C. B. Hübschle, B. Dittrich, S. Grabowsky et al. (Acta Crystallographica Section B 64 363, 2008), CC0 1.0 (the Crystallography Open Database).
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Thermal ellipsoids: A-DNA, 0.83 Å, PDB 1DPL, by M. Egli, V. Tereshko, M. Teplova et al. (Biopolymers 48 234, 1998), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
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Thermal ellipsoids: A four-stranded RNA, 0.61 Å, PDB 1J8G, by J. Deng, Y. Xiong and M. Sundaralingam (Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 98 13665, 2001), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
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Thermal ellipsoids: A loop of ribosomal RNA, 0.85 Å, PDB 5NQI, by C. Riml, A. Lusser, E. Ennifar and R. Micura (J. Org. Chem. 82 7939, 2017), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
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Thermal ellipsoids: DNA with a drug in its groove, 0.95 Å, PDB 3OMJ, by D. Chenoweth and P. Dervan (J.Am.Chem.Soc. 132 14521, 2010), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
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Thermal ellipsoids: DNA with a light-switch metal complex, 0.92 Å, PDB 4E1U, by H. Song, J. Kaiser and J. Barton (Nat Chem 4 615, 2012), CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB data policy.
Four more super-resolution microscopy sets from ShareLoc.XYZ on Zenodo (each record’s CC BY 4.0 read on its live page on October 5, 2026). Three records give no localization precision; theirs is estimated from the data by NeNA (Endesfelder et al., Histochemistry and Cell Biology 141, 629–638, 2014).
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Super-resolution microscope: “Xenopus laevis nuclear pore complex stained with WGA-ATTO520” by Anna Löschberger, on ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.7182237, CC BY 4.0. An 8 µm square cut from the record (a subset), cut by
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Super-resolution microscope: “Actin with PhalloidinAF647 in COS7” by Sarah Aufmkolk, on ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.5510661, CC BY 4.0. A 10 µm square of one cell, 174,903 of its localizations (a subset), cut by
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Super-resolution microscope: “Mitochondrial protein TOM22 in COS7 cells” by Wei Ouyang, on ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.5512636, CC BY 4.0. A 15 µm square of one field, 219,846 of its localizations (a subset), cut by
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Super-resolution microscope: “ZOLA-3D microtubules” by Andrey Aristov, Benoit Lelandais and Christophe Zimmer (Institut Pasteur), on ShareLoc.XYZ, 10.5281/zenodo.6861446, CC BY 4.0. A 12 µm square, 159,785 of its localizations (a subset), cut by
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FIRE-2 m12i (res7100), snapshot 600 (z = 0), stars (m12i: Wetzel et al. (2016)): 250,000 of the 11.4 million star particles in the 40 × 12 × 40 kpc box, with their ages.
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FIRE-2 m12i (res7100), snapshot 172 (z = 2), gas (m12i: Wetzel et al. (2016)): 300,000 of the 1.36 million gas particles in a 24 kpc box.
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FIRE-2 m12i (res7100), snapshot 172 (z = 2), stars (m12i: Wetzel et al. (2016)): 250,000 of the 640,318 star particles in a 24 kpc box.
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FIRE-2 m11h (res7100), snapshot 600 (z = 0), gas (m11h: El-Badry et al. (2018)): 300,000 of the 351,956 gas particles in a 16 kpc box.
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FIRE-2 m11h (res7100), snapshot 600 (z = 0), stars (m11h: El-Badry et al. (2018)): 250,000 of the 640,445 star particles in a 16 kpc box.
The land for Terrain in a box and the Contour lab: the U.S.
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Mount St. Helens, Washington: a 9 km square of USGS_13_n47w123.tif (metadata), averaged to 256 × 256 samples.
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The Grand Canyon near Grand Canyon Village, Arizona: a 12 km square of USGS_13_n37w113.tif (metadata), averaged to 256 × 256 samples.
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Yosemite Valley and Half Dome, California: a 10 km square of USGS_13_n38w120.tif (metadata), averaged to 256 × 256 samples.
Three cryo-EM maps from the Electron Microscopy Data Bank, each with the atomic model fitted into it from the PDB (checked on the live pages on October 5, 2026).
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Cryo-EM map: Mouse heavy-chain apoferritin by cryo-EM at 100 keV, 2.6 Å, EMD-17961 and its fitted model PDB 8PVC, by G. McMullan, K. Naydenova, D. Mihaylov et al. (PNAS 120, e2312905120, 2023). The map: EMDB’s data are “free of all copyright restrictions and made fully and freely available for both non-commercial and commercial use” (the EMDB FAQ); cropped, blurred against aliasing and resampled by
tools/sci3-cryoem.mjs. The model: CC0 1.0 (the wwPDB data policy); its backbone only. -
Cryo-EM map: Arbekacin-bound E. coli 70S ribosome, 3.2 Å, EMD-48329 and its fitted model PDB 9MKK, by S. Majumdar, N. P. Parajuli, X. Ge, A. Emmerich and S. Sanyal (Scientific Reports 15, 18271, 2025). The map: EMDB’s data are “free of all copyright restrictions and made fully and freely available for both non-commercial and commercial use” (the EMDB FAQ); cropped, blurred against aliasing and resampled by
tools/sci3-cryoem.mjs. The model: CC0 1.0 (the wwPDB data policy); its backbone only. -
Cryo-EM map: AAV2 virus-like particle, 3.02 Å, EMD-20610 and its fitted model PDB 6U0V, by M. Agbandje-McKenna and A. Bennett (deposited 2019). The map: EMDB’s data are “free of all copyright restrictions and made fully and freely available for both non-commercial and commercial use” (the EMDB FAQ); cropped, blurred against aliasing and resampled by
tools/sci3-cryoem.mjs. The model: CC0 1.0 (the wwPDB data policy); its backbone only.
Night sky
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Stars: the HYG database v4.1 by David Nash (astronexus.com), CC BY-SA 4.0 (its live LICENSE file, checked October 5, 2026). Every star to magnitude 6.0 and the fainter stars a constellation line needs (5,071), with position, magnitude, B−V color, distance, spectral type and names.
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Constellation lines: the Stellarium team’s Western sky culture (commit 014fbb5e59, May 26, 2026). Its description’s license section reads “Text and data: CC BY-SA” (no version given; credited here as 4.0) and “Illustrations: Free Art License”; only the line data (pairs of Hipparcos numbers, 674 segments in the 88 constellations) is used, never the illustrations.
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Planet, Sun and Moon positions are computed in the browser from published formulas: E. M. Standish’s Keplerian Elements for Approximate Positions of the Major Planets (JPL Solar System Dynamics, Table 1), the Astronomical Almanac’s low-precision lunar series, and Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms (2nd ed., 1998) for sidereal time, precession and planet magnitudes. The tests compare them with values recorded from JPL Horizons (
tools/sky-horizons.mjs, build time only).
The place the splash shows is never saved or sent: a city’s coordinates are built in, and “Use my location” keeps the browser’s answer in memory only.
Real worlds
Feature positions are from the USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature.
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The Moon: the CGI Moon Kit by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (Ernie Wright), from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s LROC color mosaic (2025 version) and LOLA elevation. Public domain.
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Mars: Mars Viking Colorized Global Mosaic 925m (NASA, JPL, Viking orbiters; USGS Astrogeology Science Center) and Mars MGS MOLA DEM 463m (MOLA Science Team, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; USGS). Public domain.
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Mercury: the MESSENGER MDIS basemap in three colors (1000, 750 and 430 nm; PDS data set MESS-H-MDIS-5-RDR-MD3-V1.0) and the Mercury MESSENGER Global DEM 665m (Kris Becker, NASA, Arizona State University, Johns Hopkins APL, Carnegie Institution for Science; USGS). Public domain.
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Venus: the Venus Magellan Global C3-MDIR Synthetic Color Mosaic 4641m (PDS Geosciences Node) and the Venus Magellan Global Topography 4641m (Peter Ford, Gordon Pettengill, Fang Liu and Joan Quigley; NASA, JPL; USGS). Public domain.
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Earth: Blue Marble: Next Generation, July 2004 (NASA Earth Observatory, Reto Stöckli), the ETOPO 2022 Global Relief Model at 60 and 15 arc-seconds (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information) and Black Marble 2016 (NASA Earth Observatory, Joshua Stevens and Miguel Román). Public domain.
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The big moons, from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center’s global mosaics (NASA, JPL; public domain): Io (Galileo SSI and Voyager color merge, 1 km), Europa (Voyager and Galileo SSI, 500 m), Ganymede (Voyager and Galileo SSI color, 1.4 km), Callisto (Voyager and Galileo SSI, 1 km) and Titan (Cassini ISS, 4 km; Space Science Institute).
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Pluto, Ceres and Vesta, from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center’s maps (public domain): Pluto’s New Horizons LORRI and MVIC mosaic and DEM (NASA, Johns Hopkins APL, Southwest Research Institute), and Ceres’s and Vesta’s Dawn Framing Camera mosaics and DTMs (NASA, JPL, MPS, DLR, IDA).
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Stars near the Sun: the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars (Gaia Collaboration, Smart et al. 2021, A&A 649, A6; ESA/Gaia/DPAC), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, read through CDS VizieR, and, for the brightest stars Gaia cannot measure and for star names, the HYG database v4.4 (David Nash, astronexus), CC BY-SA 4.0. The splash’s star file (
assets/toys/nearby-stars/stars.json) is made from both and shares them alike under CC BY-SA 4.0. Temperatures from colors by E. Mamajek’s table of mean dwarf colors (Pecaut & Mamajek 2013). -
Real star systems: the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s Planetary Systems Composite Parameters (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech/IPAC; NASA mission data, CC0): “This research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program.” The inner Solar System from NASA’s planetary fact sheets (NSSDC).
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Real galaxies, CC BY 4.0, cropped round each galaxy: the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 (heic0506a; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)); the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 (heic0602a; European Space Agency & NASA); the Phantom Galaxy, M74 (heic0719a; NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration); and the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, M83 (eso0825a; ESO).
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Saturn V: NASA’s Saturn V 3D model (NASA/Michael D. Carbajal), NASA 3D Resources, used under NASA’s media guidelines.
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Space Launch System: NASA’s printable Space Launch System (SLS) model, NASA 3D Resources, used under NASA’s media guidelines. Cut into its pieces, colored as it flew on Artemis I and simplified by
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Space Shuttle: NASA’s Space Shuttle (A) model (NASA/Michael D. Carbajal), NASA 3D Resources, used under NASA’s media guidelines. Decoded from Draco, cut into its pieces and colored by
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None of the three models has a texture, so none carries a logo or insignia (the Saturn V’s lettering reads “UNITED STATES” and “USA”, with small U.S. flags).
Zooming in and naming the place
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Earth: Natural Earth 1:10m states and provinces, countries, populated places, marine areas, lakes, geographic regions and elevation points (Tom Patterson, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and contributors). Public domain (terms of use). Trimmed by
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The Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, the big moons, Pluto, Ceres and Vesta: the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature; USGS Astrogeology Science Center), center points of every adopted feature but the lettered satellite craters. Public domain.
The solar system on real orbits
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The planets: E. M. Standish’s Keplerian Elements for Approximate Positions of the Major Planets (Table 1, 1800 to 2050), through the night sky’s code.
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The moons: JPL’s Planetary Satellite Mean Elements, and Titan’s osculating elements from JPL Horizons.
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The asteroids and comets: the JPL Small-Body Database through its APIs: a seeded random sample of 4,000 numbered asteroids (plus Ceres, Pallas, Vesta and Hygiea), and 1P/Halley, 2P/Encke, 9P/Tempel 1 and 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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The planets’ and moons’ colors: small copies of the real worlds’ NASA and USGS maps (above).
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The tests compare positions with values recorded from JPL Horizons.
Powers of ten
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Aerial pictures, 1,000 km to 10 km across: EOxCloudless 2016 (Sentinel-2 cloudless) by EOX IT Services GmbH, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016, CC BY 4.0 (the 2016 layer’s license in EOX’s WMTS capabilities, checked October 6, 2026; the later years are NC and are not used).
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3 km: USGS Imagery Only (USDA NAIP, USGS The National Map). Public domain. Its color is matched to the 10 km and 1 km pictures beside it (one gain per channel, by tools/pol-aerial-match.mjs; October 15, 2026). The half of the Earth for the globe is the same service’s Blue Marble: Next Generation (NASA Earth Observatory, Reto Stöckli). Public domain.
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1 km to 30 m: District of Columbia, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, Aerial Photography (Orthophoto) 2023, 3 inch (8 cm), CC BY 4.0 (its live license, checked October 6, 2026).
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Stars within 500 pc: the HYG database v4.4 by David Nash (astronexus), CC BY-SA 4.0 (its live README, checked October 6, 2026). The stars file
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Read from other splashes: the nearby stars (Gaia and HYG, CC BY-SA; Space r2), M83 by ESO (CC BY 4.0; Space r2), the Earth and Moon maps (NASA, public domain; Space r2), the ribosome’s cryo-EM map EMD-48329 and model PDB 9MKK (public domain; Science r3) and the “Golden Fullmoon Maple” capture by Joshua Trapani (CC BY 4.0).
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The golden full-moon maple’s leaves: “Acer shirasawanum ‘Aureum’” by Megan Hansen (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0 (its cut,
micro-crown-*.jpg, stays CC BY-SA 2.0), and one leaf: “Golden Full Moon Maple” by susteph (Flickr), CC BY 2.0 (their live pages, checked October 6, 2026). Cut bytools/pot-micro.mjs. -
Plant cells: “Arabidopsis thaliana plant cells containing chloroplasts, LM” by Fernán Federici, and a chloroplast: “Chloroplast in a bean leaf, TEM” by Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen, both from the Wellcome Collection (and), CC BY 4.0 (their live pages, checked October 6, 2026). Cut by
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The planets’ places: JPL’s Approximate Positions of the Planets (E. M. Standish). Public domain.
Data and climate
The Data in 3D splash (Studio) and the Climate records splash (Science) ship dated snapshots and never fetch anything live. Each license was checked on the live source page on October 5, 2026.
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Climate records and a Data in 3D sample: monthly mean CO2 at Mauna Loa from the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (Xin Lan, Pieter Tans and Kirk W. Thoning), NOAA’s file of September 5, 2026, in the public domain under NOAA’s terms (“in the public domain, unless specifically annotated otherwise”). NOAA does not endorse Splashery. Only NOAA’s own measurements, from May 1974, are kept: the file’s months from March 1958 to April 1974 come from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, whose site carries no data license and whose site terms forbid republishing without permission, so they are left out.
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Climate records: the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP v4), Land-Ocean Temperature Index, by the GISTEMP Team, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (2026), accessed October 5, 2026; and Lenssen, N., G. A. Schmidt, M. Hendrickson, P. Jacobs, M. Menne and R. Ruedy (2024), “A GISTEMPv4 observational uncertainty ensemble”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 129, e2023JD040179. A U.S. government work, in the public domain.
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Data in 3D sample: earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and up in the 30 days to October 5, 2026, from the U.S. Geological Survey, a U.S. government work in the public domain. Seven of the feed’s columns are kept.
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Data in 3D sample: the Iris data of R. A. Fisher (1936), Bezdek’s corrected copy from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, CC BY 4.0. A header row was added and “Iris-” written as “Iris “.
Tables people open in Data in 3D are read in their browser and never uploaded.
Sound and light lab
Their data:
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Emission lines: the visible lines (380 to 750 nm, in air) of sixteen neutral atoms, from the NIST Handbook of Basic Atomic Spectroscopic Data (Sansonetti and Martin, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 34, 1559 (2005); NIST SRD 108, drawn from the Atomic Spectra Database), its “Strong Lines” tables for H, He, Li, Na, K, Ca, Sr, Ba, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe (for example hydrogentable2.htm). Measured values, credited to NIST;
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Glass: SCHOTT’s Sellmeier coefficients for N-SF11 and N-BK7, as listed on RefractiveIndex.INFO (from the SCHOTT catalog).
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Wavelength colors: Dan Bruton’s approximation of the visible spectrum.
Imaging
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Walnut CT scan: Walnut 1 of the “Cone-Beam X-Ray CT Data Collection Designed for Machine Learning: Samples 1-8” by Henri Der Sarkissian, Felix Lucka, Maureen van Eijnatten, Giulia Colacicco, Sophia Bethany Coban and K. Joost Batenburg (CWI, Amsterdam; Scientific Data 6, 215, 2019), 10.5281/zenodo.2686726, CC BY 4.0. Its high-quality reconstruction (100 µm voxels), every second slice, averaged to 0.3 mm, cropped and stored as 8-bit densities by
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The airport X-ray scanner, How CT works and their bags, shell and scanners are built by the splashes’ recipes.
Volume viewer
- Gar micro-CT: “MicroCT images of 3 early gar (Lepisosteus osseus) stages between 12.7mm and 21.7mm” by Brian Metscher (University of Vienna; the scans used by Konstantinidis et al. 2015), 10.5281/zenodo.19021581, CC BY 4.0 (checked on the live record on October 8, 2026). The 12.8 mm larva (VIMS22685), 502 TIFF slices of 4.42 µm voxels, averaged 4 × 4 × 4 to 17.7 µm, cropped, its faint empty background set to 0, and stored as 8-bit NIfTI by
tools/vol-gar.mjs.
Molecule viewer
PDB data are CC0 1.0 under the wwPDB usage policy (checked on the live page October 5, 2026: “Data files contained in the PDB archive are available under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication”); as it encourages, each entry and its authors are cited:
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Crambin, PDB 1CRN, deposited by W. A. Hendrickson and M. M. Teeter; M. M. Teeter, “Water structure of a hydrophobic protein at atomic resolution”, PNAS 81, 6014 (1984).
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Green fluorescent protein, PDB 1EMA, deposited by M. Ormö and S. J. Remington; M. Ormö, A. B. Cubitt, K. Kallio, L. A. Gross, R. Y. Tsien and S. J. Remington, Science 273, 1392 (1996).
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Hen egg-white lysozyme, PDB 1LYZ, deposited by R. Diamond, D. C. Phillips, C. C. F. Blake and A. C. T. North; R. Diamond, J. Mol. Biol. 82, 371 (1974).
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B-DNA dodecamer, PDB 1BNA: H. R. Drew, R. M. Wing, T. Takano, C. Broka, S. Tanaka, K. Itakura and R. E. Dickerson, PNAS 78, 2179 (1981).
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Caffeine, Chemical Component CFF: the ideal coordinates of the wwPDB Chemical Component Dictionary (part of the PDB archive, CC0).
An entry fetched by its code is read from RCSB when the person asks and is never stored; its title, authors and the time of the fetch show beside it, with the CC0 notice. Files people open are read in their browser and never uploaded.
Files on the assets site that no Splash uses
The rest (MakeHuman’s system assets, Poly Haven’s textures, sky, and models, and Kenney’s) are CC0 1.0.
Arcade
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Stone Belt: the shapes of the asteroids 101955 Bennu, 25143 Itokawa, 433 Eros, 216 Kleopatra, 1620 Geographos, 4179 Toutatis and 6489 Golevka, from NASA 3D Resources (“3D Printing”), by NASA, in the public domain (the collection’s README: “free and without copyright”; checked October 5, 2026). Each model was sampled to 1,600 surface points with their normals by
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Soft Landing: the Moon’s ground from the CGI Moon Kit (NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio, Ernie Wright; LRO’s LOLA elevation,
ldem_16_uint.tif, and LROC color,lroc_color_2k.jpg), and Mars’s from Mars Global Surveyor’s MOLA (MEGDR,megt90n000eb.img, NASA’s Planetary Data System), both NASA works in the public domain (checked October 5, 2026). Patches around seven sites were cut out bytools/arc-terrain.mjs(assets/toys/soft-landing/terrain.json). -
Page Breaker: the photo sample is the Picture lab’s tulip field (see “Pictures and pages”), and the article sample is the Picture lab’s.
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Photo Dash, October 9, 2026): a new sample photo at random after each level, from photos the site already ships: the Picture lab’s tulip field (CC0 1.0, see “Pictures and pages”) and ten of Ryan Kamp’s AI-picture Studio samples (see “AI pictures by Ryan Kamp”): Alpine lake, Castle on a lake, Canyon at sunset, Rice terraces, Paper valley, Felt farm, Fishing cove, Desert oasis, Train on a viaduct and Floating islands. Each one’s credit (an AI picture by Ryan Kamp, naming ChatGPT Images 2.5) shows on the stage while it shows. They are scenery for a game, never shown as real places.
National flags
The pattern layer can wrap a national flag around any splash. The files are unchanged. Each flag’s source page, author line and license are listed in assets/flags/flags.json (196 flags, checked on September 23, 2026). The flag of Oman is not included: its Commons file is under Oman’s Open Government Licence rather than a public-domain or Creative Commons license (see docs/BACKLOG.md).
Sounds
All are CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication), from Freesound and Kenney’s Impact Sounds, checked on their live pages on September 30, 2026.
| File | Splashes | Source | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
alarm-clock-bell.mp3 |
alarm-clock | old alarm clock ringing | tuberatanka |
asteroid-crumble.mp3 |
asteroid | Rocks.wav | adamgryu |
baseball-bat.mp3 |
baseball | Bat Hit 9 FF095.aif | martinimeniscus |
beach-ball-bounce.mp3 |
beach-ball | fotballPlast.wav | blindmanonacid |
bowling-ball-pins.mp3 |
bowling-ball | B_2 Bowling ball striking pins.wav | Yarmonics |
bowling-ball-roll.mp3 |
bowling-ball | Bowling Ball.wav | driftworks |
cat-statue-meow.mp3 |
cat-statue | cat meow short | skymary |
comet-fire.mp3 |
comet, meteor | Torch.wav | DanielVega |
crystal-ball-ring.mp3 |
crystal-ball | Wine glass clink deeper.wav | lmr9 |
crystal-lattice-chain.mp3 |
crystal-lattice | Steel chain soft drop | ani_music |
diamond-tap.mp3 |
diamond, ruby, emerald, sapphire, opal | Glass Tap.wav | Unicornaphobist |
dna-zipper.mp3 |
dna | Zipper Unzip 3 (Slow) .wav | RutgerMuller |
grand-piano-*.mp3 (23 notes, A0 to C8) |
grand-piano | 88 piano keys, long reverb | TEDAgame |
heart-beat.mp3 |
heart | Human Heartbeat (60 BPM) | FenrirFangs |
horse-statue-whinny.mp3 |
horse-statue | Renill de cavall / Horse Neigh | Salsero_classic |
lantern-blow.mp3 |
lantern | blowing out candle.wav | Reitanna |
lantern-match.mp3 |
garden-gnome, lantern | Match Lighting Candle | devilqube |
marble-roll.mp3 |
marble | Marble (single) rolling on wooden floor.wav | LiezelDippenaar |
meteor-boom.mp3 |
asteroid, meteor, star, planetary-nebula, brain | Muffled Distant Explosion | NenadSimic |
meteor-fire.mp3 |
meteor, nebula | Waving Torch.wav | spookymodem |
neuron-arc.mp3 |
knot, neuron, orbital | highvoltagearc.wav | Sclolex |
pool-ball-cue.mp3 |
pool-ball | pool_break.wav | reg7783 |
protein-velcro.mp3 |
chromosome, protein | Velcro | paulocorona |
raspberry-land-1.mp3 |
raspberry, blackberry | Impact Sounds (impactSoft_medium_000.ogg) | Kenney |
raspberry-land-2.mp3 |
raspberry, blackberry | Impact Sounds (impactSoft_medium_002.ogg) | Kenney |
raspberry-squish.mp3 |
raspberry, blackberry, donut | Squish impact | Bertsz |
star-cookie-crumble.mp3 |
star-cookie | Crisp Crunch.m4a | Yin_Yang_Jake007 |
star-cookie-snap.mp3 |
star-cookie | Crisp Crunch.m4a | Yin_Yang_Jake007 |
supernova-boom.mp3 |
star, pulsar, black-hole, planetary-nebula, supernova | Deep Boom | Za-Games |
tennis-ball-bounce.mp3 |
tennis-ball | bola de tenis caindo.wav | Negraovictor |
tennis-ball-slam.mp3 |
tennis-ball, softball | ball_hit_ground.wav | Kyanite_ |
vintage-camera-flash.mp3 |
vintage-camera | Vintage Camera Flash Powder and Shutter | Werra |
wooden-elephant-trumpet.mp3 |
wooden-elephant | Elephant Trumpets Growls.flac | D.jones |
Lattices and orbitals
The cells and atom positions come from the Crystallography Open Database, whose data are in the public domain (“All data on this site have been placed in the public domain by the contributors”), checked October 7, 2026: W. G. Trucano and R. Goto, T. Hondoh and S. Mae, J. Chem. The Debye–Waller factors of diamond, copper, iron and magnesium at 293 K are from L.-M. Peng, G. Ren, S. L. Dudarev and M. J. Whelan, Acta Crystallographica A 52, 456–470 (1996), and the covalent radii of O and H from B. Cordero et al., Dalton Transactions, 2832–2838 (2008); numbers are facts, quoted with their source. The Orbital atlas computes the hydrogen wave functions itself.
Software
Splashery is built on the PlayCanvas engine (MIT) and uses gifenc (MIT) for GIF export. See LICENSES.md. Pictures and pages use PDF.js (Apache 2.0) and omggif (MIT), loaded only when someone opens a PDF or a GIF. The Science shelf’s galaxy sample was cut with jsfive (public domain), a build tool only. The QR code splash uses Project Nayuki’s QR Code generator library (MIT) to encode its codes and jsQR (Apache 2.0) to check that they scan, both loaded only when that splash opens (jsQR only when a check runs in a browser without its own QR reader). “QR Code” is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.
AI pictures by Ryan Kamp
Ryan Kamp wrote the prompts for these pictures, generated them with an AI image model, and chose and checked each one. They are samples and scenery only: never real places, real captures, or measurements, and never on the Photoreal shelf or in a science, math, or engineering Splash.
The models used so far:
- ChatGPT Images 2.5: all 94 pictures.
Dot samples
Ryan Kamp made 40 pictures (the “Dot” set, D01 to D40). Checked October 7, 2026:
Picture QR, October 10, 2026) also offers four of them as its sample pictures, labeled as AI pictures in its picker group and its credit: Felt farm (D37), Glass wave (D38), Mushrooms (D27), and Stone arch (D17).
Studio test inputs: depth lab J
AI pictures by Ryan Kamp (ChatGPT Images 2.5), October 14, 2026. These are fictional Studio test inputs, CC0 under Rules B4. They are never real captures, real places, or measured depth references. They are not used in science, math, or engineering splashes, or on photoreal shelves. No people, faces, text, logos, or identifiable landmarks were seen in the ten inspected native images.
Every picture is 1,280 × 1,280, JPEG quality 0.78. The native images were 1,254 × 1,254 and were resampled once; this does not add captured detail. No public picker or runtime source was changed.
Their variants keep the same scene prefix.
Studio samples: hard cases
AI pictures by Ryan Kamp (ChatGPT Images 2.5), October 13, 2026. These 20 fictional pictures were selected from 40 candidates measured in Photo to 3D. They use the Dot samples’ credit (an AI picture by Ryan Kamp, naming ChatGPT Images 2.5), beside each picture in the “AI pictures by Ryan Kamp: Hard cases” picker group. No people, text, logos, or real landmarks were seen. They are Studio samples, never real captures or real places, and never used for science, math, engineering, or photoreal shelves. File hashes, prompts, scores, and selection decisions are in the scored report.
more sample pictures
Ryan Kamp built the sample selection and verification tools, under Splashery’s MIT license.
Twenty more Studio samples are AI pictures by Ryan Kamp (ChatGPT Images 2.5), labeled as such in the picker and beside the result. They are fictional scenes with no people, readable text, logos, or real landmarks. Checked October 13, 2026:
The following 24 Picture QR backgrounds show clear subjects and have no URL-specific carriers. All 24 are AI pictures by Ryan Kamp (ChatGPT Images 2.5), labeled as such in the picker group and the in-app credit. Checked October 13, 2026:
The full prompts, hashes, scores, five-link scan rates, and phone-size contact sheet are in the sample-pictures audit. No new asset loads before it is picked.
Photo to 3D round 4
Code is MIT; the original recording contribution is CC0 1.0, subject to each source image’s existing license.
Studio truth fixtures
These are rendered scenes, not real captures. No outside assets are used. Full sequences are kept separately from the shipped site. The build-time code is offered under this repository’s MIT license.
Picture QR fidelity test images
The museum releases these images under CC0.
| Entry | Maker | Source |
|---|---|---|
| met-436305: Still Life | Georg Flegel | Met collection |
| met-10181: Landscape | Ralph Albert Blakelock | Met collection |
| met-459968: Landscape | Auguste Renoir | Met collection |
| met-9284: Vase | American | Met collection |
| met-9549: Vase | American | Met collection |
| met-9283: Vase | American | Met collection |
| met-249072: Vase | East Greek/Sardis, Lydian | Met collection |
| met-312624: Animal | Nayarit | Met collection |
| met-478467: Animal | Coptic | Met collection |
| met-42138: Fantastic animal | China | Met collection |
| met-556849: Animal figurine | Unknown maker (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | Met collection |
| met-244130: Shell | Unknown maker (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | Met collection |
| met-325462: Scallop shell | Unknown maker (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | Met collection |
| met-13181: Fruit | Julian Alden Weir | Met collection |
| met-203455: Fruit cluster | Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory | Met collection |
| met-438031: Summer Flowers | Henri Fantin-Latour | Met collection |
| met-196651: Fruit bowl | Unknown maker (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | Met collection |
| met-3845: Fruit Bowl | Boston & Sandwich Glass Company | Met collection |
| met-570235: Cowrie shell | Unknown maker (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | Met collection |
| met-244131: Shell | Unknown maker (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) | Met collection |
The fidelity study and QR improvements are made by Ryan Kamp, offered under the project’s MIT license. Most detail lazily loads the local MIT/Apache-2.0 zxing-cpp reader named in LICENSES.md.
Picture QR theme packs
48 original code-made illustrations, selected from 138 candidates, Made by Ryan Kamp. All are offered under CC0 1.0, checked October 14, 2026. Source: Fictional artwork; Space-art is imaginary art, never a real capture or scientific data. Chromium 151.0.7922.173 rasterizes the original SVG to 960×960 JPEGs at quality 88. No source picture uses a QR payload or grid. Each choice says code-made; pictures load only when selected. See the scan report for ten-link results and detail scores.
| Name | Theme | File | Maker | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer sun · soft | Seasons | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Autumn maple | Seasons | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Winter snowflake | Seasons | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Winter mittens · soft | Seasons | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Apple | Seasons | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Spring buds | Seasons | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Winter fir · soft | Seasons | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Autumn acorn | Seasons | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Scallop shell · soft | Ocean | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Rolling wave | Ocean | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Starfish | Ocean | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Reef fish · soft | Ocean | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Coral fan · soft | Ocean | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Pearl shell | Ocean | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Sea turtle · soft | Ocean | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Jellyfish · soft | Ocean | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Fern frond | Forest | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Woodland mushroom · soft | Forest | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Pinecone · soft | Forest | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Oak leaf · soft | Forest | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Acorn | Forest | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Berry branch | Forest | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Pond leaves | Forest | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Birch branch | Forest | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Ringed planet · soft (imaginary art) | Space-art | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Crescent moon (imaginary art) | Space-art | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Spiral galaxy · soft (imaginary art) | Space-art | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Paper rocket (imaginary art) | Space-art | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Orbital rings (imaginary art) | Space-art | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Imaginary nebula · soft (imaginary art) | Space-art | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Twin planets (imaginary art) | Space-art | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Meteor shower (imaginary art) | Space-art | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Woven bands | Patterns | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Spiral tiles | Patterns | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Ripple rings | Patterns | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Mosaic diamonds · soft | Patterns | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Arc quilt · soft | Patterns | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Paper folds | Patterns | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Wavy stripes | Patterns | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Large chevrons · soft | Patterns | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Balloons | Celebrations | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Party cake | Celebrations | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Paper bunting | Celebrations | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Confetti | Celebrations | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Festival lantern · soft | Celebrations | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Ribbon bow | Celebrations | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Flower bouquet | Celebrations | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
| Paper pinwheel | Celebrations | JPEG | Ryan Kamp | CC0 1.0 |
Photo to 3D loading-cover color and Hybrid status follow-up code and regression checks are made by Ryan Kamp, October 15, 2026. Code is MIT. Original capture contributions are CC0 1.0; source assets retain their recorded terms. See the loading-color and status audit.
The WebGPU frame-queue backpressure, live-embed regression checks, and manual PDF text checks are made by Ryan Kamp, October 15, 2026, under the MIT license. See the live-embed teardown audit.
Photo to 3D failure atlas
The local failure finder, metric calibrations, and static gallery are made by Ryan Kamp, October 15, 2026. Tool and gallery code are MIT. Original audit capture contributions are CC0 1.0; source images retain their recorded terms. See the failure-gallery report.
Picture QR fit
The crop controls, finder geometry, and scan-study tools are made by Ryan Kamp under Splashery’s MIT license.
Moving photo to 3D
The clip playback, geometry accelerator, and measurement code are made by Ryan Kamp, under Splashery’s MIT license. The original C source and its build command accompany the small compiled geometry module; no compiler or third-party runtime is served with it.
The rebuild uses the existing upload refinement’s color-gated half-second depth window. The original video files are unchanged, and these derived depth caches keep each film’s CC BY license and Blender Foundation attribution listed above.
They contain procedural rigid geometry and an original test tone, with no external footage, people, or marks. Each is two seconds at 256 by 144; the fast clip runs at 60 frames per second. MP4, WebM, MOV, and GIF files exercise the local-file path. These fixtures have no shelf entry or automatic fetch.
Neuron specimen
From a concept by Ryan Kamp. No reference pages, fonts, or renderers ship. The new procedural specimen and thumbnail are made by Ryan Kamp, CC0; the port’s code is offered under Splashery’s MIT license. The quiet synthesized tap cue is a visual aid, not a recording of a nerve cell.
Made by Ryan Kamp; geometry CC0, code MIT. The stain colors follow standard histology (cresyl violet, silver chromate, hematoxylin and eosin); no images were copied. The spike colors are visual aids.
The Hodgkin-Huxley model page was opened on October 14, 2026. This splash integrates the concept’s squid giant axon equations with a 0.01 ms Euler step, samples the potential at 0.1 ms, and displays 7 model milliseconds per second. Geometry and timing are schematic, not a measured human neuron. The model itself (Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952) is published science, not a licensed asset: its equations and constants are facts, free to use. The splash’s simulation of it is Ryan Kamp’s own procedural work, under the same terms as the rest of the specimen: CC0 1.0, and the code MIT.
Step inside a 360° photo
Made by Ryan Kamp, October 17, 2026. Original panorama reconstruction code is MIT. The two samples are Sergej Majboroda’s Small Empty Room 1 and Small Empty Room 2, under CC0 1.0. Both live source pages and Poly Haven’s license page were checked on October 17, 2026. Their tonemapped JPEGs were reduced to 2048×1024; spherical depth was estimated locally using the existing depth model. Evaluation-only Blender scenes are original CC0 fixtures made by Ryan Kamp, using the existing Studio truth generator. They live on the separate clips branch.
Libraries and models
Every library is vendored (a plain copy in the repo, no CDN, no bundler) and loaded only when something needs it. The captures, sounds, and other assets have their credits in CREDITS.md, not here (the CC BY captures this site edited itself are listed below too). The code is MIT (LICENSE).
WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
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SOG keeps splats in lossless WebP pictures whose bytes must come back exactly, and the browser’s own decoder, read through a canvas, premultiplies alpha and changes them.
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Licenses: MIT (splat-transform) and BSD-3-Clause with Google’s patent grant (libwebp). Both texts are in
src/vendor/webp/LICENSE(the main repo’svendor/webp/LICENSE, checked on October 5, 2026) and are repeated below.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
—– libwebp (compiled into webp.wasm) —–
Copyright (c) 2010, Google Inc. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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Neither the name of Google nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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“These implementations” means the copyrightable works that implement the WebM codecs distributed by Google as part of the WebM Project.
Google hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated in this section) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify and propagate the contents of these implementations of WebM, where such license applies only to those patent claims, both currently owned by Google and acquired in the future, licensable by Google that are necessarily infringed by these implementations of WebM. This grant does not include claims that would be infringed only as a consequence of further modification of these implementations.
Splashery’s own code (vendor/splashery/)
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Files:
vendor/splashery/, copied unchanged from ryanjosephkamp/splashery at commit57b0c3aaon October 18, 2026 (the list and SHA-256 of each file are invendor/splashery/VENDOR.json;node tools/check-vendor.mjsfails if one differs). This copy is being retired: the same code is now synced intosrc/splashery/(src/splashery/PROVENANCE.json), andvendor/splashery/goes with it. -
Source: Splashery (https://splashery.app/); the copied files are served at https://ryanjosephkamp.github.io/splashery-assets/
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License: MIT (Ryan Kamp; the code is the project’s own)
Copyright (c) 2026 Ryan Kamp
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
gifenc 1.0.3
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License: MIT
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
pdf-lib 1.17.1
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Source: https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib (Andrew Dillon).
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Loaded only when someone makes a PDF with Save PDF on the Share tab (a dynamic import). Never on first paint, on the shelf, or in an embed.
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License: MIT (checked on the live repository’s
LICENSE.mdand the npm package on October 19, 2026; the full text is insrc/splashery/vendor/pdf-lib/LICENSE.md). The bundle includes its dependencies, all permissive:pako(MIT and Zlib),@pdf-lib/standard-fontsand@pdf-lib/upng(MIT), andtslib(Apache License 2.0, its notice kept at the top of the file). It uses only the 14 standard PDF fonts; no font file is embedded.
QR Code generator library (Project Nayuki)
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Files:
src/splashery/vendor/qrcodegen/(qrcodegen.js,LICENSE), synced from the main repo’svendor/qrcodegen/(src/splashery/PROVENANCE.jsonhas its hash). It is Project Nayuki’s library, https://www.nayuki.io/page/qr-code-generator-library, from https://github.com/nayuki/QR-Code-generator at commit3c6d0b3cefb4e049dc337e82237c9644399716a8(typescript-javascript/qrcodegen.ts), compiled to JavaScript with TypeScript 5.6.3 (tsc --target ES2020 --module none); Splashery added only a header comment and oneexport default qrcodegen;line at the end, so it loads as an ES module. -
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License: MIT (checked on the live project page by the main repo on October 3, 2026).
Copyright (c) Project Nayuki. (MIT License) https://www.nayuki.io/page/qr-code-generator-library
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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The Software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the Software or the use or other dealings in the Software. ```
jsQR 1.4.0
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Source: https://github.com/cozmo/jsQR (Cosmo Wolfe).
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Loaded only when a QR tool checks that a code scans.
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License:
ZXing for JavaScript 0.21.3
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Source: https://github.com/zxing-js/library (the ZXing for JS authors, a port of ZXing).
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Loaded only when a QR tool or the Other barcodes splash reads a code back, and for the Data Matrix and Aztec writers.
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License: Apache License 2.0 (the full text is in
src/vendor/zxing-js/LICENSE). The package’spackage.jsonsays “MIT”; both are permissive and allowed here, and we follow the LICENSE file.
zxing-wasm 3.1.4, with zxing-cpp (copied from Splashery)
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Source: https://github.com/Sec-ant/zxing-wasm (Ze-Zheng Wu), wrapping zxing-cpp (https://github.com/zxing-cpp/zxing-cpp, its source pinned at commit
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Loaded only when Picture QR’s Most detail checks a code with a second, independent reader.
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License: MIT for the wrapper (the repository’s license, checked on its live page on October 23, 2026) and Apache License 2.0 for zxing-cpp (the full texts are beside the modules).
Splat.js 0.1.0
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Source: https://github.com/arrival-space/splat.js, commit
88efe9aaf32279b0b9bcb781ea0deb4d60c49dff(September 23, 2026; package version 0.1.0). Files insrc/vendor/splatjs/src/: the modules thatsession.jsand its two workers reach (structure from motion, the WebGPU trainer, frame decoding and the PLY writer), unchanged except for the local changes below; the list and what was left out are insrc/vendor/splatjs/VERSION.md. The library’s own video reader (src/io/video.js, which loads Mediabunny, MPL-2.0) is not vendored: Splashery picks the frames itself. -
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src/session.jsacceptsrefineStart, an opt-in first-refinement threshold for short offline build-tool passes. It replaces the hardcodedtrainer.iter > 1500check withtrainer.iter > (this.opts.refineStart ?? 1500)so a build tool can refine a short run explicitly. Omitted or null values retain the original 1,500-step threshold. Task 88’s browser integration now passes a threshold that fits each tier’s budget. The original vendor edit is isolated in commitffcc71cc. The MIT notice is retained. -
Local change by Ryan Kamp (October 13, 2026):
src/gs/trainer.jsbinds the existing camera-gradient buffer at binding 8 in the optional D-SSIM backward pass. Its shader requires that buffer even when camera optimization is off; the missing binding invalidated every command buffer while the iteration counter continued advancing. The offline tool requests the nine storage bindings this pass needs and rejects GPU validation errors. The browser splash still uses the original MSE training default. The MIT notice is retained. -
Local changes by Ryan Kamp (October 15, 2026): a session owns its outstanding worker, frame-decoder, and GPU resources through disposal. An abort-safe worker queue terminates both feature and pair workers on cancellation or error. The optional
seedLimitreserves room for appended surface samples without increasing the requested seed count or changing default Gaussian parameters. Trainer buffers are released separately from a host-owned GPU device. The last training batch is limited to the remaining iteration budget.src/vendor/splatjs/VERSION.mdrecords the patched files. The upstream MIT notice is retained; original code is offered under this repository’s MIT license.
laz-perf 0.0.7
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Source: https://github.com/hobuinc/laz-perf (Hobu, Inc.), a LAZ (compressed LAS) reader compiled to WebAssembly. It is the permissive choice the brief asked for, so no LGPL library is used.
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Loaded only when someone opens a .laz file in the Point clouds splash (inside its worker).
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License:
dicom-parser 1.8.21
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Source: https://github.com/cornerstonejs/dicomParser (Chris Hafey and the Cornerstone contributors). It parses DICOM files’ elements; the volume viewer reads the pixels itself (uncompressed and RLE Lossless).
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It makes no network calls.
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License: MIT (checked on the npm package and the live repository’s LICENSE on October 8, 2026; the full text is in
src/vendor/dicom-parser/LICENSE).
PDF.js 6.3.289
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License: Apache License 2.0 (the full text is in
src/vendor/pdfjs/LICENSE). The wasm decoders are under their own licenses, insrc/vendor/pdfjs/wasm/LICENSE_*(OpenJPEG: BSD 2-clause; jbig2 from PDFium: BSD 3-clause and Apache 2.0; qcms: MIT).
omggif 1.0.10
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Loaded only when a picture splash opens a GIF in a browser without ImageDecoder (Safari).
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Source: https://github.com/deanm/omggif
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License: MIT.
ONNX Runtime Web 1.30.0 (its modules)
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License: MIT (Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation).
Depth Anything V2 Small, quantized ONNX
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Loaded only when a depth tool (Photo to 3D, Moving photo to 3D, Step inside a 360° photo, Room echo meter, Splat mirror) estimates a depth, once, inside a worker; never on the shelf. It runs on this device through the WASM provider; nothing is sent anywhere.
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Half-precision build:
src/vendor/depth-anything-v2-small/model_fp16.onnx(49,642,442 bytes, SHA-2562df6223f206b5164e21f664ace61dabeb9bb6a49b8b5a3e00510b4807d0f5b04),onnx/model_fp16.onnxof the same repository at commit4472b7362082ad9968fee890ca0f1e5aca36b93d, unmodified; the repository’s license is Apache-2.0 (checked on its page on October 20, 2026), as the int8 build’s. Loaded by the depth worker’s WebGPU provider only; the int8 build stays the WASM model.
Piano transcription note model, ONNX
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Changes: only the note model is kept, exported to ONNX without its log-mel front end, with its weights stored as 16-bit floats (cast back to 32 bits when it loads).
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tools/piano-model-export.pyand the note-making restated insrc/splashery/transcribe/notes.jscome from https://github.com/bytedance/piano_transcription (Apache License 2.0, as its README states; checked October 21, 2026) and https://github.com/qiuqiangkong/piano_transcription_inference (MIT, as itssetup.pystates). -
Loaded only when a piano splash’s song panel opens a recording with Recordings: Piano chosen, inside a worker; it runs on this device through the vendored ONNX Runtime (WebGPU or WASM), and nothing is sent anywhere.
Basic Pitch, ONNX
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File:
src/vendor/basic-pitch/nmp.onnx(230,444 bytes, SHA-2562c3c1d144bfa61ad236e92e169c13535c880469a12a047d4e73451f2c059a0ec), unmodified, frombasic_pitch/saved_models/icassp_2022/nmp.onnxof https://github.com/spotify/basic-pitch at commitfa5997af0a8210982619003269994a1be25eddf3(version 0.4.0). Its model card isMODEL-CARD.md, and the repository’sLICENSEandNOTICEare beside it. -
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Loaded only when a piano splash’s song panel opens a recording with Recordings: Any instrument chosen, inside a worker, through the vendored ONNX Runtime; nothing is sent anywhere.
Instrument Serif and JetBrains Mono
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Sources: https://github.com/Instrument/instrument-serif (The Instrument Serif Project Authors) and https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono (The JetBrains Mono Project Authors), both taken from https://github.com/google/fonts on October 14, 2026.
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License: SIL Open Font License 1.1, checked on October 14, 2026. Neither font declares a Reserved Font Name; the page names the subsets “Pit Serif” and “Pit Mono”.
Lato and Source Code Pro (the Observatory look’s fonts)
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Fredoka, bold, Latin subset (Splat Name’s letters)
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Source: https://github.com/hafontia/Fredoka-One (Copyright 2016 The Fredoka Project Authors).
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License: SIL Open Font License 1.1, checked on October 26, 2026. It declares no Reserved Font Name.
CC BY 4.0 captures edited here
The changes, for all five: converted to SOG with the spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled, and loose floaters removed; and for each:
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No other change.
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No other change (the first files: the maker’s name painted out on the paper table and the front badge, and the model number on the frame).
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The few splats under the coin it stands on cropped away (the first files: the coin cropped away).
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The tripod cropped and the bottom plate under its mount filled in (the first files: the maker’s name and logos, the lens’s name and markings, and the serial numbers painted out too).
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The lawn around it cropped to a round patch.
Eight more, made the same way and under the same license (“CC BY 4.0” on each live page, checked October 24, 2026, when their files were downloaded). The changes, for all eight: converted to SOG with any spherical harmonics removed (base colors only), turned upright, recentered and scaled, and loose floaters removed; and for each:
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The exhibit’s rail, panels, wall, and floor cropped away.
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The gravel cropped away along the ground’s slope (the first files: cropped level, which cut off the bottoms of the wheels, and the maker’s name painted out on the radiator and on the side plate).
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The asphalt cropped away along the ground’s slope; the lettering, emblems, tire lettering, and rear plate painted over.
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The hall around it cropped away: its floor, rail, exhibit panels, beacon tower, mail truck, and a figure (the first files: the maker’s roundel painted out on both sides too).
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The wooden disc cropped away (the first files: the maker’s name painted out on the radiator too).
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The cobbles cropped away (the first files: the maker’s crest, its name on the rear, the tires’ lettering, and both license plates painted out too).
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No other change (the first files: the maker’s crest, name, and model lettering painted out (hood, rear, side stripes, brake calipers, a seat, and wheel caps), the license plate blanked, and the driver figure’s face blurred).
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The hilltop cropped to a round patch around the castle.
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The fortress cropped along its walls, without the river, the far bank, and the sky.
And one more, the same way and under the same license (“CC BY 4.0” on its live page, checked October 24, 2026, when its files were downloaded), served from R2 like the eight:
- Perseverance rover: “Perseverance rover - Synthetic scene” by tmate, https://superspl.at/scene/8d5c3046. A synthetic scene its author made in Blender from NASA’s 3D models of Perseverance, Ingenuity, and a sample tube (NASA/JPL, from NASA’s 3D resources: https://science.nasa.gov/3d-resources/mars-2020-perseverance-rover/) and trained into splats. The ground cropped to a round patch around the rover, without Ingenuity and the sky; thinned to 1,000,000 splats. Its labeled hotspots are the scene’s annotations, their texts edited. It shows NASA’s insignia and JPL’s logo on the front and the Mars 2020 mission logo on the arm as captured; NASA’s media guidelines (https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/) keep its insignia out of the public domain and rule out implying its endorsement, so its first files, with the three painted out, are served with
?old=redactions. The rover’s name on its arm and two plaques on its side stay in both.
Build tools (not shipped)
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Playwright 1.56.1 (Microsoft; Apache-2.0): drives Chromium for the checks, the parity run, and the clips.
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Prettier 3.8.1 (MIT): formats the generated site pages and the Manual’s pages.
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PlayCanvas’s splat-transform CLI 3.10.3 (MIT; https://github.com/playcanvas/splat-transform), installed apart, not in
package.json: reads a capture and packs SOG files fortools/capture-edit.mjsandtools/blender/ply-to-toy.mjs.