WORM as a 3D Gaussian Splat: by Noé Vince-Soós

A 3D film of WORM’s office space, made by WORM PR intern, Noé Vince-Soós, during his time working here, January to June, 2026.  Noé explained his motivation and thinking behind his choice of technologies.

“Often we tend to define spaces in their physical terms. “Living room; Bedroom; Office; 80 square metres; Loft apartment; Storage.” And so on. But other realms remain unexplored: the sense of space in spiritual or social dimensions.

People associate living spaces, working spaces, or places of commute, for instance, like the metro station or the parking lot, with certain emotions, memories, and people; however, this is rarely defined or reflected in our visual understanding of them. In this project, I created a 3D scan of the upstairs office at WORM, where I have spent the last 6 months as a content intern. Here, I have made many memories, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes boring. I have a connection to the space not just through its physical means, but with the people who I share it with, the different kinds of faces that make the engine of WORM run every day.

To make this project, I used Polycam, a software that combines large chunks of images, analyses their geometric and spatial data, and recreates the objects in them in a 3D Gaussian Splat. While with great precision and professional technologies, these splats can look almost 1:1, like the objects taken in the pictures. For the average creator, they often end up looking a bit glitchy, with abstract meshes that almost resemble how we reconstruct spaces in a dream. This glitchiness is exactly what I was looking for in this project.

If you look carefully at the film, you will most likely be able to construct an image of the WORM office in your head, due to the human mind’s incredible capacity to analyse data; however you will also notice that everything is a bit off: spaces don’t make sense, walls are missing, there are holes everywhere. The aesthetic of Gaussian Splats really reminds me of how memories and the visual sense of emotions work; they are not concrete spaces with defined boundaries, but rather these shreds of moments that combine together, into an illusion of what it was like.”

The typo in the film title (Guassian Splat instead of Gaussian Splat) is entirely intended.