Friday, March 11

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 >