3D Gaussian Splatting Editor

...written in Rust using wgpu.

Overview

[!WARNING]

This library is under active development, breaking API changes between versions may occur frequently.

Use at your own risk.

This library provides a set of tools to create and manipulate 3D Gaussian Splatting models. It includes:

• Selecting Gaussians using selection operations and expressions.
  • Primitive operations: union, intersection, difference, symmetric difference, and inversion.
  • Custom operations: define your own selection logic using WGSL shaders.
  • Built-in custom operations: sphere and box selections.
• Modifying Gaussian attributes.
  • Masked modifications: apply changes only to selected Gaussians from selection buffers.
  • Custom modifiers: define your own modification logic using WGSL/WESL shaders.
  • Built-in basic modifier: color adjustments (RGB override or HSV modifications), alpha, contrast, exposure, gamma, and transformations (scale and rotation).
• Shaders
  • WGSL shaders packaged with WESL, you can extend or replace them.

Usage

This crate provides some basic selection and modifier, but you may also define your own custom selection and modifier using WGSL/WESL shaders.

You may read the documentation of the following traits and structs for more details:

• [Editor]: The struct that manages the necessary buffers and applies the selection and modification.
• [Modifier]: The trait for modification operations, may be used to define custom modifiers.
• [BasicModifier]: A built-in modifier that enables some basic color and transformation modifications.
• [SelectionBundle]: A struct can evaluate selection for each Gaussian, may also call custom selection operations.
• [SelectionModifier]: A struct that applies selection and then modification, may be used to define custom selection modifiers.
• [NonDestructiveModifier]: A struct that applies modifications without changing the original Gaussians, it achieves this by storing an original copy of the Gaussians.

[!TIP]

The design principles of this crate are to provide modularity and flexibility to the end user of the API, which means exposing low-level WebGPU APIs. However, this means that you have to take care of your code when accessing low-level components. You risk breaking things at run-time if you don't handle them properly.

If you do not want to take the risk, consider using the higher-level wrappers and avoid any instances of passing wgpu types into functions.

Basic Editor

You can use [Editor] and [SelectionModifier::new_with_basic_modifier] to manage the selection and modification of Gaussians with the built-in basic operations. Here's a simple example:

use wgpu_3dgs_editor as gs;

// Setup wgpu...

// Read the Gaussians from the .ply file
let gaussians = gs::core::Gaussians::read_from_file(model_path, GaussiansSource::Ply)
    .expect("gaussians");

// Create an editor that creates the necessary buffers, you may also create the buffers manually
let editor = gs::Editor::<GaussianPod>::new(&device, &gaussians);

// Create a basic selection modifier with a box and a sphere selection bundle
let mut basic_selection_modifier =
    gs::SelectionModifier::<GaussianPod, _>::new_with_basic_modifier(
        &device,
        &editor.gaussians_buffer,
        &editor.model_transform_buffer,
        &editor.gaussian_transform_buffer,
        vec![
            gs::SelectionBundle::create_box_bundle::<GaussianPod>(&device),
            gs::SelectionBundle::create_sphere_bundle::<GaussianPod>(&device),
        ],
    );

// Create the buffer and bind group for the box selection's position, rotation, and scale
let box_selection_buffer = gs::InvTransformBuffer::new(&device);
box_selection_buffer.update_with_scale_rot_pos(&queue, box_scale, box_rot, box_pos);

let box_selection_bind_group = basic_selection_modifier.selection.bundles[0]
    .create_bind_group(
        &device,
        1, // The built-in box selection bundle uses index 1 for the inv transform buffer,
           // see documentation of `SelectionBundle::create_box_bundle`
        [box_selection_buffer.buffer().as_entire_binding()],
    )
    .unwrap();

// Create the buffer and bind group for the sphere selection's position, rotation, and scale
let sphere_selection_buffer = gs::InvTransformBuffer::new(&device);
sphere_selection_buffer.update_with_scale_rot_pos(&queue, sphere_scale, sphere_rot, sphere_pos);

let sphere_selection_bind_group = basic_selection_modifier.selection.bundles[1]
    .create_bind_group(
        &device,
        1, // The built-in sphere selection bundle uses index 1 for the inv transform buffer,
           // see documentation of `SelectionBundle::create_sphere_bundle`
        [sphere_selection_buffer.buffer().as_entire_binding()],
    )
    .unwrap();

// Set the selection expression
basic_selection_modifier.selection_expr = gs::SelectionExpr::selection(
    0, // The bundle index for the box selection during creation of the selection bundle
    vec![box_selection_bind_group],
).union( // Combine with other selection expressions using different functions
    gs::SelectionExpr::selection(
        1, // The bundle index for the sphere selection during creation of the selection bundle
        vec![sphere_selection_bind_group],
    ),
);

// Set the modification parameters, here we override the color
basic_selection_modifier
    .modifier
    .basic_color_modifiers_buffer
    .update(
        &queue,
        gs::BasicColorRgbOverrideOrHsvModifiersPod::new_rgb_override(color),
        alpha,
        contrast,
        exposure,
        gamma,
    );

// Create wgpu command encoder...

// Apply the selection and modification
editor.apply(
    &device,
    &mut encoder,
    [&basic_selection_modifier as &dyn gs::Modifier<GaussianPod>],
);

// Submit the commands...

// Download the modified Gaussians
let modified_gaussians = editor
    .gaussians_buffer
    .download_gaussians(&device, &queue)
    .await
    .unwrap()
    .map(|g| g.to_ply())
    .collect::<core::PlyGaussians>();

// Write the modified Gaussians to a .ply file
modified_gaussians.write_ply_file(&args.output).unwrap();

Examples

See the examples directory for usage examples.

Dependencies

This crate depends on the following crates:

Related Crates

• wgpu-3dgs-viewer
• wgpu-3dgs-core