I wrote about web scraping for political/artistic purposes for the first issue of the journal Critical AI: https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article/doi/10.1215/2834703X-10734046/382464/Scrapism-A-Manifesto
the coolest thing about Gaussian splatting is how similar it is to painting where high frequency details are done with more detailed brushstrokes
(screenshot from https://gsplat.tech/)
a humble render farmer