№ 05 · 3D Photo · prototype, for testers
Turn it in your hands.
A 3D Photo keeps the shine and the colour shifts that make glass hard to photograph, and you can turn it on screen. Your phone does the work; this page just shows it and gives you a link to share.
What this is not. A 3D Photo (a Gaussian splat, technically) is a picture. It is never signed into a piece's record and never used to tell one piece from another; that is what the Glass ID does. Anyone can upload one of anything, so treat it as a maker's own rendering of their work, nothing more.
How to make one
Scan it on your phone
Scaniverse (free, iOS and Android) builds the 3D Photo on the phone itself: pick its 3D-photo mode (the app calls it Splat), orbit the piece slowly at two or three heights with the light behind you, then export it as a PLY file. Polycam works too. On a laptop, Brush or OpenSplat turn a folder of photos into one.
Crop it
Open the file in SuperSplat in your browser, delete the table and the room, keep the piece, and export as PLY or SPLAT. Under 150 MB uploads here; under 30 MB loads fast on a phone.
Upload and share
Sign in, pick the piece it belongs to, upload. You get a link that opens this page with your piece turning. One 3D Photo per piece; uploading again replaces it.