Gaussian Splatting for Dummies

Gaussian Splatting is a fascinating scene reconstruction technique introduced by INRIA and last year I had a lot of fun tinkering with it while on my semex. I recently discovered some of my notes related to it and decided to digitize it this weekend, along the way I reimplemented the forward rasterization pass in rust and decided it would be fun to write a tutorial explaining gaussian splatting to…