Dresden

The Old Masters Picture Gallery

Amiryu Hosoi
gave 5 the link of the Dresden museum
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2007/08/gallery_dresden
have a look there 5 !
Here is de SLURL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dresden%20Gallery/121/132/36

And 5 did, wow, what a scale, 5 sims together ! It is a reproduction of the real thing, but how can you do otherwise? Somebody asked, is this real or imagined, haha! The paintings, all those paintings, how could anyone, or any company have imagined all these themes, all these subjects, landscapes? This can only be the work of artist after artist, of century after century of work. The work of the best. Famous paintings, too famous even. Vermeer, the best of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Holbein, you name it. This makes it completely different from mainstream SL. Here you don’t ask, why is it so empty? For sure, the museum will be crowded where the Vermeer hangs, and here you are alone. Fantastic! The paintings are scanned very deep, which means you can really see every detail when zooming in. This has also a disadvantage: lag. You are regularly completely frozen. The computer, client-side is totally swamped with bits of paintings, but the painting is of a quality, well, words are failing here! 5 is really future minded, but what you see here….. This is introducing RL into SL on the best way possible. There are a few drawback, all the frames of the paintings are the same image of a terrible golden frame, repeated endlessly throughout the museum. And this image is badly treated by cutting and pasting too. This quick and unconscious framing is incomprehensible compared to the quality of the paintings. For the rest the detailing of the room, the whole palace is stunning. Here you don’t ask yourself, isn’t reproduction boring? It is over the limit. That this is done in Second Life is really showing the quality of this world and that all the negative publicity will be forgotten.
It is a very positive contribution and improving the whole world. This is something 5 puts on the list of showing to friends, new and old!
Of course all depends on the paintings of the centuries, the enormous collection, and your appreciation and understanding of the paintings. Their force and imagery power is visible, in this virtual context, which is maybe of the same kind as Second Life, although transformed.