Museum 2, sculpties

• Virtual Museum Schielandhuis
• Paul van de Laar, real exhibition
• Five March, virtual reconstruction

Above picture: parasol openend.
This is a picture which gives 3D information. This info is hidden in the colors. Colors are described by three numbers, our space is too. So in a color map one can have all the information about a shape. All shapes? No. The shapes described here are only shapes which can be obtained by transforming a sphere. No holes are allowed, so a teacup, with a handle is impossible in this coding. But many of the things we use are like the sphere, for instance shovels, parasols, umbrella's, chairs. And even telephones.
The problem with the sculpties is always the interplay between the UV map, providing the 3D information and the texture, the image covering this shape. If the grid on this shape is not realy good, the picture will never fit.

Most of our objects are rather rectangular, for these things sculpties are not very useful, also sinc the resolution is low, the corners are blurred.
Only when the object is really out of the most regular geometric shapes, a sculpty is the solution. Like the telephones and umbrella's.

From the umbrella's some parasols were developed, which were particularly nice when combined with a script to change the textures, and using transparent textures.
It was also fun making the show cases with the plates, cups, saucers. These items are shown two times, the first in the pre-war Bijenkorf, and the second in a similar setting, only after the war.
Images of luxury goods, with a design deeply rooted in the decades where it comes from.

Two other special sculpties were the mannequins. These are also repeated, The first representing the mannequins wearing dresses for the dancing, the roaring twenties, jazzy dresses and the second group of mannequins on display are the italian puppets seen in the shops of the Lijnbaan, the pedestrian zone in the absolute centre of the city openened in 1952.