Core11 GmbH has extended its support for LichtFeld Studio through the end of 2026, bringing its total sponsorship to €36,500 and moving the company into the project’s Foundational Sponsor role.
That matters less as a sponsorship milestone than as a sign that LichtFeld continues to attract sustained backing. In open-source 3D Gaussian Splatting, plenty of projects show up with a strong demo or a useful repo. Fewer manage to build toward something more complete.
LichtFeld Studio is trying to do exactly that. What began as a Gaussian Splatting tool is increasingly taking shape as a broader workstation: training, live inspection, scene editing, export, Python plugins, and MCP-based automation inside one native, CUDA-accelerated application.
Core11 GmbH first backed the project in November 2025 with an €16,000 commitment over eight months. This extension deepens that relationship and places the Vienna-based GPU consultancy among the project’s earliest and most significant supporters. LichtFeld separates the Foundational Sponsor label from its Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze tiers to highlight organizations that helped get the platform off the ground.
As Dr-Ing. Gernot Ziegler of Core11 puts it, “Gaussian Splatting, or sample-based rendering, definitely surpasses all previous 3D reconstruction approaches in versatility, with massive potential ahead for even more diverse material properties and light transport mechanisms. LichtFeld Studio is constantly adapting to the latest findings in this research field, and thus helps us provide high-quality 3D reconstruction for our customers, be it drone flight surveys, product presentations or artefact digitization for museums and art galleries. Through our intricate cooperation with Mr. Patas we can maintain our innovation advantage, and gladly aid with CUDA optimization expertise, particularly for high-end GPUs used in the professional market. The Python API enables a whole new ecosystem that will interact with LichtFeld Studio, and we are even more excited to see LFS´ embrace of AI with the MCP protocol that will surely accelerate splat research innovation, for us and others.”
The sponsorship also reflects where radiance field tooling still stands. Much of the software in the space remains fragmented: one tool for training, another for viewing, another for cleanup or export. LichtFeld’s pitch is that these workflows do not have to remain split apart, while still allowing extensibility through its integrated Python plugin system.
Written by Janusch Patas
Janusch Patas is the creator of LichtFeld Studio, an open-source desktop application for 3D Gaussian Splatting, and curator of the awesome-3Dgs repository. He co-hosts The View Dependent podcast, covering the latest in 3DGS and neural rendering research. Based in Basel, Switzerland, he is known in the community as MrNeRF.
