Bringing History to Life with 3D Splats

A Guide for Museum Content Creators on Embedding Interactive Elements

Open-Access Digital Heritage Assets

These 3D Gaussian Splat captures are provided as a community service to help digitally preserve and share local heritage. Museum web teams, curators, and digital content creators are welcome to integrate these interactive elements directly into online exhibitions, educational pages, or regional archives free of charge.

By leveraging real-time web engines, these captures display highly accurate textures and environmental light fields seamlessly without creating heavy rendering overhead for your site's visitors.

Sample Gallery Showcase

Below is a live demonstration of how your first six spatial archives look when embedded into a modern, responsive layout featuring clean rounded viewports.

Spearin House

Gildford Train Station

Vespra Anglican Chapel

1909 Tudhope

Simcoe County School House

Marin Barn

How to Use the Embed Code

Integrating these splats into an existing Content Management System (such as WordPress, Drupal, or Webflow) or custom HTML markup is straightforward. By utilizing a standard <iframe> tag, you handle the heavy lifting without storing massive data files locally on your server.

Simply copy the code snippet below and paste it directly into your page layout editor's HTML/code component window:

Sample Embed Code 
<iframe id="viewer" width="800" height="500" allow="fullscreen; xr-spatial-tracking" src="https://superspl.at/s?id=9f5b97ed"></iframe>

Usage Terms & Attribution Licensing

To keep these archives free and accessible, deployment is subject to meeting two simple compliance standards:

Requirements for Deployment:
  • Provide Attribution: Include a visible credit link back to the author's portfolio on the page where the assets are being hosted. You can style the link to seamlessly match your site layout, but it must reference and link to S. Benoit.
  • Send a One-Time Notification: Send a quick text email prior to launching the page to confirm which models are being utilized and provide a link to the live deployment for archiving tracking purposes.

Example Attribution Text

While placement choices are left up to the web creator, an optimized snippet like this works beautifully inside site footers or image metadata rows:

HTML Attribution Sample 
<p style="margin-top: 0.25rem;">
    Interactive 3D captures created by 
    <a href="https://benoits.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color: #d1c7bd; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;">S. Benoit</a>.
</p>

Notify the Creator

Click the link below to automatically generate a pre-formatted notification email using secure obfuscation fields to update the archive repository team:

Send Usage Notification Email

Explore Additional 3D Collections

Beyond the standalone showcase highlighted above, complete archives of digital heritage captures, alternative geometric formats, and raw data layers are continuously expanded across two master repository channels:

SuperSplat Repository

Houses high-fidelity 3D Gaussian Splats optimized for real-time web engines, rendering highly accurate textures and environmental light fields seamlessly without intense local hardware rendering limits.

Browse Splat Repository

Sketchfab Portfolio

Contains traditional 3D polygonal models, heritage scans, and optimized architectural geometry layouts ideal for standard web viewer frameworks, VR integration, or structural study.

Browse Sketchfab Models