The amazing wood carving shown below is one I found on a trip to the Roman remains at Caerleon in South Wales. It’s by an artist called Chris Wood but the carving itself doesn’t seem to have a name. His work seems to be quite prolific and he creates some excellent public art with chainsaws and big lumps of wood. And what you see below isn’t just a photo, it’s a whole gaussian splat 3D scan hosted on SuperSplat – so you can navigate around it just by using your mouse or touchscreen (click here for the SuperSplat page).
The gaussian splat was created by Kiri Engine using reframed and dewarped footage from 8k Insta360 video taken with an X4 camera. Due to filming the video from ground level with a selfie stick the splat is best viewed from low level. It isn’t downloadable but is made available on SuperSplat for general viewing in the hope you will go and visit this amazing piece of public art. And, of course, to hopefully inspire more people to start making and sharing gaussian splats.
To discover more you can visit the website of Chris Wood and find out about lots of his other works of art too, or maybe just pop over to Caerleon for a look and a nice day out 🙂
