Friday, March 11, 2005

3-D Recreations of Computer Games and Famous Art

A. Arcade games, transformed from computer screen to real-life.

1. Tetris Tower
   <http://www.radicagames.com/index.cfm?event=showProdDetail&id=10&
       categoryId=5>

2. PongMechanik
   <http://www.cyberniklas.de/pongmechanik/index.html>

3. GPS:Tron
   <http://www.herecast.com/articles/gps-tron>

4. Project Blinkenlights: Arcade Games
   <http://www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/games.en.html>
Use your mobile phone to interact with arcade games which are 'screened'
on the windows of buildings

5. Enter the Overlook Hotel
   <http://www.unrealaudio.net/theshining2/download.htm>
"A highly detailed 3-D recreation of the Overlook Hotel. You play the part
 of Duke Nukem, U.S. Marines Special Operative, sent in to take care of the
 'Caretaker.'"


B. Parastone Mouseion collection
   <http://www.3d-mouseion.com/engels/index-eng.htm>
"[T]he designers of the Parastone studios in The Netherlands have brought to
 life famous paintings by lifting images out of the flat surface"

A Selection:
* Hieronymus Bosch
   <http://www.3d-mouseion.com/engels/bosch_eng.htm>
   <http://www.3d-mouseion.com/engels/bosch_eng4.htm>
* M. C. Escher
   <http://www.3d-mouseion.com/engels/escher%201%20eng.htm>
* Salvador Dali
   <http://www.3d-mouseion.com/engels/sada_en.htm>