Virtual Gallery

This is a proof of concept for displaying existing flat art on the walls of a non-existant gallery. The rooms of the gallery are computer generated and photographs of the art are rendered in the virtual rooms. The rooms are then treated as interactive photographs so that the art and information about it can be viewed by the internet visitor.

In this example, you get to tour the first two rooms of a virtual gallery that has been "hung" with my own photographs. The first room are just general photos, the second room is a selection of historic kitchens. Clicking on the kitchens will take you into interactive photographs of those kitchens.

To use the interactive photograph, javascript must be enabled in your browser.

In each photograph, there are "hot spots". Many of them simply display additional information when you move your mouse over them. Some of them (such as doors) will change the point of view to what's beyond the door when you click on them.

The result is a self-directed tour of the gallery.

Also:

• there's a strip at the bottom of each photo that usually provides a "step back" function
• doors that provide entrance to a room from another room often have a hot spot on the floor in front of them that will change your point of view to that spot
• the hot spots are not marked on purpose... it tends to draw the user in a bit more, this way

Since this is just a proof of concept, please be aware of the following limitation:

• some of the pop-up boxes may "jitter" (MSIE, only) when you move the mouse. This can be fixed with a simple software tweak in my authoring software.
• I used inexpensive software to render the rooms. The results are not as good as I'd like (mostly join errors in the panoramas) but those issues would disappear by choosing a better rendering engine

Click here to go to the gallery, then click on the door to enter