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MatterPort Demo of Taliesin West
- erikig 7y agoFor anyone else that's curious Taliesin West is the winter home and architectural school of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. I just love how his buildings lay comfortably and organically on the landscape and Matterport's 3D rendering does a great job of showing this.
- kkylin 7y agoOff-topic: I'm not an architecture buff and still found the (not-too-cheap) tour of Taliesin West well worth the time and money. Worth considering if you're ever in Scottsdale AZ.
- mr_spothawk 7y agoAlso worth visiting in Scottsdale (not far away, and historically related) is Cosanti, which is free. Paolo Soleri is a really interesting character
- nkoren 7y ago> Paolo Soleri is a really interesting character 'Tis true. I worked with him fairly closely for five years (1992-1997), so knew him well. Happy to do an AMA for anyone who's interested in the subject.
- kkylin 7y agoYes, Cosanti's definitely interesting. As is Arcosanti itself, if you can spare the time to drive out there (on the way from Phoenix to points north). https://arcosanti.org/ https://arcosanti.org/ https://arcosanti.org/visit/cosanti/ https://arcosanti.org/visit/cosanti/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti
- hoobdeebla 7y agoThe Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation just released a collaboration with an art gallery, Spoke Art (SF), called Timeless, a collection of WPA-style posters by local and international artists. I went to the exhibit when it was at Taliesin West a few weeks ago and ended up buying 2 of the posters to hang in my room. There are 2 more exhibits in the future, one at Taliesin East and one in Spoke Art's sister gallery in NYC. Here is the first of 3 collections for anyone interested: https://spoke-art.com/collections/frank-lloyd-wright-timeless https://spoke-art.com/collections/frank-lloyd-wright-timeles...
- mirimir 7y agoThis sucker ate 3GB RAM in Firefox, and hung at 75%. What's it supposed to do? Edit: Oh, https://matterport.com/ https://matterport.com/. Not the thing to load in a wimpy VM, using a high-latency uplink.
- danpalmer 7y agoThis is kinda cool, and better than nothing, especially for their target markets like real estate, but I cannot for a second believe that this is the best UX for browsing the 3D space. It's slow, it's clunky, the transitions look poor, and I struggle to get a "feel" for the 3D space in any useful way. It seems to be a straight clone of the Google Street View interface, and that was one with many more restrictions on the data at a scale far larger. There must be improvements possible here!
- cbanek 7y agoIt's interesting about the 3D space part. I totally agree. Having visited Taliesin West in person, there's one unique part you would notice right away if you were there but can't with the 3D model: the height of the ceilings. The ceilings there were very low, and it was kind of strange being in there as a fairly tall person (~6ft). Kind of like being in a hobbit hole.
- Animats 7y agoIt's like Quicktime VR.