Art From Pixels
Learning and science
art history museum
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21 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 2 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score +0.41.
Execution: 6 for, 1 againstIdea: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 4 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive execution, design and UI
From 4 comments
VERY impressed by the implementation, idea, and interface. Major kudos.
insane_dreamer on HNgreat execution of the idea!
terranivium on HNthis is a truly beautiful implementation. great job!
jinjiefan2018 on HNThe UI and UX design is inspiring! Goes to show that people can still be creative and innovative with website ideas in the AI age. Beautifully done.
DrProfresher on HN
Inspiring idea that makes museum browsing feel new
From 3 comments
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…
crazygringo on HNfeels 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…
serf on HNGlorious. I've been waiting for this a long time.
jsmcgd on HN
Works well on mobile
From 1 comment
Nice, works surprisingly well on mobile (iOS Firefox). It’s be nice if the UI was a little less intrusive, I have a smaller phone and it takes up a lot of the screen. Maybe just…
jamilton on HN
Objections
Images are low resolution because they come from Wikipedia
From 2 comments
It's amazing. And it's heartbreaking to see the low resolution. I hope the author will explore the large catalogs of high resolution public domain/CC0 images available. Because…
groby_b on HNVery 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…
seemaze on HN
Missing many artists and art movements
From 1 comment
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…
ggerules on HN
Only one artist can be browsed at a time, not a fully walkable museum
From 1 comment
I remember that art galleries used to be the best thing in Second Life. Seeing things in a walkable space was incredibly different than browsing a website. There is something…
d--b on HN
Images are pulled directly from Wikipedia's servers, raising bandwidth concerns
From 1 comment
This looks incredibly cool! But I do note that it's pulling the images from Wikipedia's servers directly. That feels like it could be pretty bad for Wikipedia's bandwidth. I…
Sophira on HN
Requests
Higher resolution images, such as from museum IIIF sources
From 3 comments
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.
Soliddune16 on HNIt's amazing. And it's heartbreaking to see the low resolution. I hope the author will explore the large catalogs of high resolution public domain/CC0 images available. Because…
groby_b on HNEasily done if you leverage https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/story/ultra-high-resolution-photo - sure there are loads more museums that offer such a…
_joel on HN
Curated exhibitions mixing several artists
From 1 comment
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.
luxcem on HN
VR support
From 2 comments
Great project! Any plans to support VR?
albertodenia on HNYou miiiight be able to get away with WebXR with graceful fallback
joshspankit on HN
Audio guide about artists and paintings
From 2 comments
nice! if you add also an audioguide it will complete the experience!
justkat91 on HNNot 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…
jasontr on HN
Walk speed setting and more museum-like layout
From 1 comment
So cool and inspiring. 1) Please add a walk speed setting. The current setting feels too fast for a museum environment. The joy of seeing a piece out of the corner of your eye…
tamacun3 on HN
Questions
Did performance suffer with a large dataset, and is the timeline coded from scratch?
From 1 comment
Did you find any issues with performance in such a large dataset (like "all artists") with such dynamic rendering (specifically for the timeline view)? Does this use a library…
cobertos on HN
How was it built?
From 1 comment
This is so fun! Love seeing a new way of engaging with a site that is just vertical scrolling and scrolling. What inspired you to take on this concept? I'd be interested in…
sendgeetikamail on HN
Alternatives named
Google Arts & Culture
From 2 comments
It's amazing. And it's heartbreaking to see the low resolution. I hope the author will explore the large catalogs of high resolution public domain/CC0 images available. Because…
groby_b on HNI remember that art galleries used to be the best thing in Second Life. Seeing things in a walkable space was incredibly different than browsing a website. There is something…
d--b on HN
WikiArt
From 1 comment
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…
ggerules on HN
Minecraft Uncensored Library
From 1 comment
This most likely does not pull directly from Wikipedia. Wikipedia has rate limits on how much you can link to them. It looks like they are storing the images as a cache in the…
NishanStepak on HN