gaussian splats are cool. i’ll let wren from corridor crew explain it.
i will mention one thing - they are not holograms. i understand why one might want to draw that analogy, but it misses what i believe is a fundamental property of holograms - they are non-locally encoded. that is, while each part of a piece of photo film corresponds to the final image, each portion of a holographic image contains the whole
let’s say you have a holographic film of an apple. if you cut the film in half, the resulting hologram is not of half an apple, but of a lower resolution or lower fidelity apple