Someone: Please combine microscopy with gaussian splatting.
Don't know if this would be in your wheelhouse, but for very nice macro splats, check out the work by Dany Bittel: https://danybittel.ch/macro.html
For example this bumblebee: https://superspl.at/scene/cf6ac78e
Edit: I completely missed that this was posted by him (:
This was also my first thought when I zoomed in into the strawberry. I wonder if you can achieve a microscope like effect with a more suitable setup. E.g. better lighting, zoom, lens, etc.
Don't know if this would be in your wheelhouse, but for very nice macro splats, check out the work by Dany Bittel: https://danybittel.ch/macro.html
For example this bumblebee: https://superspl.at/scene/cf6ac78e
Edit: I completely missed that this was posted by him (: