Field notes / 01
Archival images × Apple SHARP
Living Histories
A little depth
to the past.
What happens when an archival image becomes a place you can look around?
An experiment with Apple SHARP and images from Living Histories. Familiar streets, interiors, and fragments of local history, given a new sense of depth.
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Apple SHARP experiment · Published scene title
Living Histories · Original record link to be added
Image credit and collection reference to be added.
Behind the experiment
One image.
Another perspective.
These experiments start with archival images from the Living Histories platform. Apple’s SHARP model predicts a 3D Gaussian representation from a single image, allowing it to be viewed from nearby positions. The resulting splats are presented here through SuperSplat.
The interesting part is the small shift in viewpoint: the separation between foreground and background, the depth of a room, or the space along a street. Move gently around each scene and look at where that illusion holds, and where it starts to unravel.
Reading the results
The depth is inferred. Areas hidden in the original image have not been documented, and moving too far from the original viewpoint can reveal gaps, stretching, and other artefacts. These are experiments in interpretation, rather than measured reconstructions of the places shown.
Individual source records and image credits will be added alongside each scene. The scene titles currently follow their SuperSplat publications.