I also find their usage of the word neural very confusing but this is how they explain it. A Gaussian Splat, instead, is a neural representation unit that is n

I also find their usage of the word neural very confusing but this is how they explain it. A Gaussian Splat, instead, is a neural representation unit that is not limited in this way – not only can it be assigned anywhere in XYZ/3D space, but it can as necessary multiply and subdivide into additional splats, as coverage requires.* And the asterisk leads to the following explaination. Technically it’s a rasterization unit rather than a neural unit, but in all current Splat implementations that are of any power or interest to the synthesis community, it ends up as a neural unit, passed through standard training processes. Amended Friday, December 15, 2023 13:33:47 EET to clarify ‘neural unit’ But even with this I am not sure that I understand what they want to say.