About Stonelight

The archive

Stonelight collects 3D captures of structures and places as Gaussian splats and makes them freely accessible. It's an archive, not a publisher: it doesn't rate, it shows.

Why these objects

Some of these places disappear slowly: walls collapse, interiors get remodelled, ruins keep eroding. A spatial capture holds onto a state that no photograph or drawing preserves with comparable precision. Others aren't disappearing at all, but are simply inaccessible — active sites, restricted areas, places you can't just walk into for good reason. For both, the splat offers the same thing: access that wouldn't otherwise exist.

New objects

There's no fixed schedule. New objects appear once a capture has been computed and checked — sometimes several in a month, sometimes none for weeks.

Licence

All published data is under CC BY 4.0: use, adaptation and redistribution are permitted as long as the source is credited. A machine-readable list of every object lives at/objects.json.

Contact

Questions, corrections, tips about accessible objects:openai@maroncloud.de.

Limits

Camera paths and annotations inside a splat are not driven by this site. They're set up in the superspl.at editor and published together with the scene, because the embedded viewer exposes no interface this site could drive it through. That's a deliberate limit, not an oversight.