Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia

justkat91

nice! if you add also an audioguide it will complete the experience!

luxcem

It would be great to add curated exhibitions alongside the single-artist retrospectives: rooms mixing works by several artists, the way a museum curator would assemble a show.

micahdittmar

This is how I'd like to consume all my information

AIblemblio

I would like a more curated version of this or a more 'hard room setup' because brains can remember things better with more context. Going up to the xy ara or through a japanese space helps. Nonetheless, nice expeirment.

albertodenia

Great project! Any plans to support VR?

seemaze

Very cool, would love to experience (ultra) high resolution presentations of the art. I was the kid that always got scolded by putting my nose up to the cavas to see the brush strokes..

aogaili

What is strange is that last year I spent a lot of time creating the exact same 3D gallery experience with Claude. I picked up the style of the lights, the benches, the walls, the cards position. I also added music, lights on top of the images and the exact tour experience. A year later, I see a very similar implementation!...I find that very odd. But I do like the experience and site, there are few things I can pick from it myself for the project I've. But it seems to me anything you use Claude for will be used aggressively to train the next model and some else in same prompting space can recreate it. Not take the anything from the author's work, mine was in a slightly different context.

zero0529

I was really surprised by this. Well done.

kapsakalis

great experience! really good work

Soliddune16

Agree on the museum sources, and the bit worth adding is most of them serve IIIF so you can pull deep zoom tiles instead of one huge texture.

whycombinetor

Very cool, but I can't seem to jump up onto the benches, even with crouch jumping.

ggerules

This is an awesome project. It could bring the art museum experience to those that can't travel to museums. But it is missing so many artists and art movements. A better choice of source material and way more artists can be found on wikiart.org [0]. Maybe the creator could merge scraping efforts? [0] wikiart.org.

mariotacke

Really well executed! Would love a (fuzzy) search to look for certain artists, additional filters, such as by-continent, by-country, etc.

pavi-t

lovely! thank you

jschveibinz

This is very, very well done. Thank you.

alexpatin

This is super cool and I look forward to sharing with my art friends. One piece of unsolicited feedback: it is really nice to focus on a particular image in the gallery, but when I'm done, it puts me back in normal cursor mode and I have to click to 'step inside' again. Minor annoyance. Otherwise really neat.

crazygringo

This is incredibly cool. It's been a while since I felt this inspired by something on HN. Congratulations on the idea and the implementation! I genuinely think there's an opportunity for someone (yourself, or someone else) to turn this into a genuinely social experience, a modern museum platform. I'd love to see people's avatars walking around in some suitably tasteful way, with general info on location/age/sex/occupation. Be able to indicate if you're open to chatting. Work with actual art historians to give prerecorded virtual tours that start every hour or something, so you can be part of a group following around. There's something special about the museum experience, and the idea of virtualizing it in a way that makes it accessible to everyone, just through your browser rather than VR goggles, feels somehow a little bit magic. Let people curate their own wing layouts and architecture and own art selection and where each painting gets hung. Have leaderboards of the most popular ones, and each wing can build doors that transition to other selected wings. I genuinely think something like this could become "the" virtual museum, the same way Wikipedia is "the" electronic encyclopedia. It's just such a fundamentally different experience from how you currently browse museum's collections electronically.

serf

feels like with all these edutainment demos that AI is enabling that i'm back playing with Encarta as a kid. Good work. It's a shame that the real-world-metaphor computer stuff fell out of favor. microsoft bob, etc. It's not that efficient but it's so well self-explained ; to see more art you walk around a museum; who'da thought.

frmfrm

Very cool! What stood out is there seems to be a canvas pattern added to the images, which the original don't have. I get it adds a nice touch of lighting but I'd prefer to switch that off to see the image without modifications. Great work!