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

(artmuseum.artfrompixels.com)

52 points | by jasontr 2 hours ago

19 comments

  • ggerules 5 minutes ago
    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.

    • jasontr 2 minutes ago
      wow i want not aware wikiart.org. indeed a better source ! since i have the infra i will include that too!! thank you a lot!!!
  • Soliddune16 10 minutes ago
    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.
    • jasontr 8 minutes ago
      IIIF i did not know very interesting. will look into it!!! ty
  • whycombinetor 9 minutes ago
    Very cool, but I can't seem to jump up onto the benches, even with crouch jumping.
    • jasontr 6 minutes ago
      hehe i know right, i was waiting for this! this is supposed to be for educational purposes, but since you want a bit of fun to press P on your keyboard and for password do Vandalism0
  • albertodenia 1 hour ago
    Great project! Any plans to support VR?
    • jasontr 19 minutes ago
      Not ATM ! Thinking of curating more the content and also add an audioguide about the life of each painter as well as some details when you come close to famous paintings. But a nice idea, but it would need better resolution of the paintings (not possible atm since are from wikipedia).
  • seemaze 1 hour ago
    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..
  • luxcem 1 hour ago
    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.
    • jasontr 10 minutes ago
      really nice idea working on this next. Thank you!!
  • aogaili 1 hour ago
    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.

  • AIblemblio 1 hour ago
    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.

    • jasontr 15 minutes ago
      nice maybe rooms designed not just from a generic historical period but themed from the painters specific life moments / or specific era? will work on that, thank you
  • zero0529 50 minutes ago
    I was really surprised by this. Well done.
  • micahdittmar 1 hour ago
    This is how I'd like to consume all my information
    • jasontr 11 minutes ago
      I agree! thinking of going beyond art to include national history. Being Greek, I plan to try Greek history next. Again a museum with paintings sculptures docuemntaty videos transcripts etc.
  • kapsakalis 42 minutes ago
    great experience! really good work
  • justkat91 1 hour ago
    nice! if you add also an audioguide it will complete the experience!
    • jasontr 1 hour ago
      every artist every work under one roof! audioguide regarding their life and some specific details when come close to a famous painting, indeed sounds nice.
    • jasontr 1 hour ago
      noted!
  • tg1482 1 hour ago
    beauty
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