Portal Plaza (with links to the 3D environments listed separately below).
Credits for my virtual worlds projects are listed here.
Owing to the demise of Blink 3D, I am having to convert all my 3D environments to Unity 3D. This should be a good move, since (for one thing) Unity 3D worlds can be viewed on PCs, Macs, and Linux machines, whereas Blink environments only worked on PCs.
Portal Plaza (with links to the 3D environments listed separately below).
Virtual Egyptian Temple: an imaginary Egyptian temple based roughly on the Temple at Edfu. It is very simplified, and currently lacks the carved and painted surface decoration that such temples would have had originally.
Tomb of Nakht: a reasonably accurate model of an actual New Kingdom tomb (the Tomb of Nakht).
Virtual Roman House: an imaginary Roman atrium house, based loosely on the House of the Faun in Pompeii.
Forum Baths, Pompeii: a rough reconstruction of the Forum Bath complex in Pompeii.
Virtual Roman Basilica: a basilica modelled closely on Ohr's reconstruction of the basilica of Pompeii.
Catacomb: an small, imaginary catacomb tomb of the type found in Early Christian Rome.
Virtual Byzantine Church: an imaginary Middle Byzantine Church, based on the churches of Hosios Loukas and Daphni.
Brancacci Chapel: a simple model showing the positions of the main frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel, Florence.
The following environments use a now-defunct web-3D product called Blink 3D. This software runs only on machines using Windows XP and 32-bit Vista. If you are using Internet Explorer as your web browser, the plug-in should install automatically when you click on the images below. If you are using Opera or Firefox, you will need to install the plug-in manually from Pelican Crossing.
Since some people (Mac users in particular) cannot yet view the Blink environments, I have posted some recorded tours on YouTube. You can find them on Glenn Gunhouse's Channel.
Virtual Byzantine Church
Portal Plaza (with links to various Blink environments, including some of those listed below)
Roman House (Domus): an imaginary Roman atrium house, based loosely on the House of the Faun in Pompeii.
Egyptian Temple: an imaginary Egyptian temple based roughly on the Temple at Edfu. It is very simplified, and currently lacks the carved and painted surface decoration that such temples would have had originally.
Tomb of Nakht
Virtual Cistercian Monastery
Catacomb
Hans Memling's St. John Altarpiece
Maya Vase
The environments listed below require the Adobe Atmosphere plug-in. Sadly, Adobe has discontinued Atmosphere, so you will only be able to view these environments if you can still install the plug-in. It should install automatically if you load the Roman Temple world first. If Atmosphere does not load automatically using that link, I don't know where else you can get it. Note that installing Atmosphere will also install the Viewpoint Media Player and the Viewpoint Toolbar. Some consider the Viewpoint Toolbar to be a kind of spyware. You can remove it using Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs.
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Tomb of Nakht: a reasonably accurate model of an actual tomb (the Tomb of Nakht), with images adapted from The Tomb of Nakht: The Art and History of an Eighteenth Dynastie [sic] Offical's Tomb at Western Thebes (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1996). |