Chapter II · Creative Technology / Software
Field Scans
Specimens captured on a regular iPhone 13 Pro, cleaned up and published with a tool I built for the job. Drag to look around — the tour picks back up when you let go.
- 3D capture
- Built with AI
- Web performance
Why I built a tool
Most people don’t know a phone can do this. The hard part is the step between the phone and a web page: raw captures are 10–33 MB each, full of floating specks and glowing haze, and every fix meant opening another program.
So I built Splat Portfolio with Claude Code: one browser app that cleans a scan, shrinks it for the web, sets a camera tour, adds notes, and exports a site ready for GitHub Pages. It’s the viewer you’re using above.
Where the megabytes are
Along the way I found out where the megabytes actually are: 73% of a raw file is color detail that changes with viewing angle. Deleting floaters barely helps; re-encoding does. I wrote that finding into the tool, so it explains itself to the next person.